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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 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, and our caption for

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today is the problem of evil. The problem of evil.

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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 please go over to your Daily Portion dot com.

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Please join our online community. I need you to pick

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Companion Guide, and also let us know where you are

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is one of the ways that we continue to build

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faith and fellowship. We'll go ahead and pray now, Father,

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we do thank you for this Sabbath morning, for the

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opportunity to experience you in a special way. Father, Please

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help us not to just identify a problem, but help

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us to live in the fullness of your light and

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your Holy Spirit, to receive and experience the solution. You

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are the solution. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and

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a man again the problem of evil. Now, I need

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to ask myself reflective question, and I want you to

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do the same thing. Is there a problem with me?

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That's the question. Is there a problem with me? This

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is very important because really looking at evil like in

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a vacuum, looking at it at far off in the distance,

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looking at evil in a way that is that is

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not connected to my own behavior is sometimes fruitless. I

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didn't say all the time. I mean sometimes, okay. And

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so we do understand that when God created Lucifer, he

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was created perfectly. He was he was the covering cherub

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or a covering cherub in heaven. Okay, And so the

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Bible says that every beautiful jewel was his covering. He

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reflected the character of God even on his visual form.

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And I'm grateful for that inmation, because the Bible says

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that at some point iniquity was found in him. Mm hmm,

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this covering cheruph this one that couldn't have been closer

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to God, like, there's no way to be closer to

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God than than he was. And and the Bible says

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that that what happened next At some point I don't

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know how long it took after he was created, I

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don't I don't know how many hundreds or thousands or

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more years that it took. But at some point he

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became mysteriously dissatisfied with his connection with God. And remember,

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there was no such thing as sin, there was no

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such thing as as evil, like it began in his bosom.

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This is why it's a mystery. We'll come back to that.

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And so and so and so. The Bible says that

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when you know it teaches us principally and then practically

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that yes, when he chose not to repent, we know

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that God is a merciful God. I'm sure that God

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would have remonstrated with him. We don't have all of

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those details in the Bible about it, but we know

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the character of God, and it comes a point when yeah,

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he would not be convinced. And so the Bible says

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that there was war in heaven. Yes, Mi kl and

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his angels fought against the dragon and his angels, and yeah,

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there was no place found for the dragon in heaven

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with him anymore. So he's kicked out of heaven. So

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the Bible continues that, yeah, well, unto the inhabitors of

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the earth of the sea, because the devil or the

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accuser of the brethren, the dragon is cast down to

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the earth. He's cast down to the earth. Now, let

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me ask you a question again. Is there a problem

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with you? I'm asking me the question, is there a

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problem with me? Has the devil taken his warlike mentality

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and placed it in my bosom and I accepted it?

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Or was it just a temptation? Is it a temptation?

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And every day we yield our will to God all day,

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every day we yield and overcome those temptations by by

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the blood of the lamb. And so is there a

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problem with me? And so the Bible does say that

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at some point in the future. We'll talk about that

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in just a second. God is going to do something special.

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And from the Bible Book of Revelation, chapter twenty one

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and verse four, the Bible reads, and God will wipe

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away every tear. God will do it. He's going to

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wipe away every tear from their eyes. These are from

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the eyes of the people who are choosing still to

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serve God, who are yielded to his will, the people

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who love God ultimately and in the end analysis would

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have chosen for the last time to continue in the

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faith of God. Those individuals from their eyes, and there

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shall be no more death, Thank God. There will be

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no more sorrow, there will be no more crying, there

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will be no more pain. Are you experiencing pain right now?

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Are you experiencing crying right now because you've lost a

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loved one, or maybe in your physical body you are

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experiencing pain because of some condition with your health. And

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the question is are you ready for the day when

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there will be no more pain? For the former things

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have passed away? And so I did promise, I'd said

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that i'd share when like you can type in the chat.

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Go ahead and start typing in the chat. If you're

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on social media or on YouTube, go ahead and type

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in the chat when will this happen? When will this happen?

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When will God wipe away all tears from our eyes?

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When will there be no more death, sorrow, pain, or

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anything of the sort. When will all sin and sinners

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be destroyed? And when I say sinners, I'm talking about

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the people who refuse to love love, the ones who

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said I don't need you to transform, be God. I'm

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done with you, those folks and the devil and his angels.

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When will that happen? And I think now we're getting

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a clear indication it is not at the Second Coming

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when all of this happens. We're looking forward to the coming.

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But once God's people would have lived with God for

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a thousand years following that great and beautiful day of

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the second Coming of Jesus Christ, after the thousand years

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are finished, the Bible teaches us that God will do

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what we read. Now, let me read from the book

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the Great Controversy, The Great Controversy, And we're setting up

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for the week to come beginning tomorrow, okay, And it's

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coming from page four hundred and ninety two, and it

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reads to many minds the origin of sin and the

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reason for its existence a resource of great perplexity. Remember,

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we're not talking about sin on earth. We're talking about

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sin the very first time there was a sin ever

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in the universe. They see the work of evil, with

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its terrible results of woe and desolation, and they question

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how all of this can exist under the sovereignty of

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one who is in finite in wisdom, in power and love.

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Here is a mystery of which they find no explanation.

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Whoa yeah. But the question that I have to ask

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me is not as the not what are the details

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of the origin of sin? How did that happen way

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back then? Which is important, maybe something that we can

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continue to study. I've studied it, maybe you have studied it.

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But in my day to day this Sabbath morning m

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at nine minutes, almost nine minutes into our program this morning,

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with just about a minute or two to go, why

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is it that I choose sometimes to go down the

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wrong path? And what is the antidote? Like, how do

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I make the decision to serve God? How do I

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accept him as the one who will give me a

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new birth experience, the one who rights his laws in

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my heart and on my mind, like, how do I

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put myself in the position and the position that I

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will no longer choose to go down that path of unrighteousness.

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And so today I say, we look forward to the

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day where there will be no more sin. We look

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forward to the day. But in the meantime, we have

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the privilege. We have the privilege. The problem with evil

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is really that some of people still accept that. But

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we have the privilege until then to surrender our will

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to God, and He can transform our lives so evil

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won't prevail in our lives. 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, put 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,