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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 Thursday, February thirteen,

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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 love and Evil. Mm hmm, love and 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 want you to pick

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up your Daily Portion book and also please please when

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you get on that website, click the number seven. I'm

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not asking you to type a number seven in the chat,

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click the number seven at that website and become a

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part of that community as well. To continue to build

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your spiritual life at your Daily Portion dot com. This

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is one of the ways that we continue to build

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faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then

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we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for

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giving us this new day and for loving us enough

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to give us your son. Thank you for giving us love,

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giving us the antidote against evil. Father, Please teach us

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to serve you with all of our hearts today in

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Jesus name, I pray Amen again. Okay, so we're still

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discussing I don't know if you would say interplay or

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the tension between free will and people making the wrong decisions.

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But the reality is, as I've said to you for

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the last couple of days, that we all have the choice.

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We have a decision to make. Are we going to

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choose to love God He loves us like He loved

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us first, so it's not a difficult decision. Or are

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we going to allow the world and the devil and

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the things that went wrong in our lives and the media,

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and all kinds of other things, even sometimes church hurt

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to determine that we will hate, love or be in

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fear of God, meaning to be afraid of God, like

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what is the decision that you're going to make? And

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so love and evil, love and evil. Let me go

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ahead and begin with the quote here from the book

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The Desire of Ages, and I will read at page

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twenty two, and it reads, the earth was dark through

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misapprehension of God, meaning people didn't understand God, that the

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gloomy shadows might be lightened, that the world might be

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brought back to God. Satan's deceptive power was to be broken.

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So God's goal in this discussion here was for people

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to really get to understand who he is, meaning God.

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And the contrast is stark, like the devil and how

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he moves his manner of bullying and pressuring and cajoling

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and drawing and tempting and deceiving people, pressing people with trials.

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God wanted that reality to be seen very clearly so

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that when we do make a decision it's a solid one.

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It's a solid one that we don't have to second

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guess because we know, unfortunately, what it's like to be

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on the wrong side of this thing. And people who

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have been bitten, like some people say here in Jamaica Land,

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we love once bitten twice shy. You understand like the

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first go around or the first few times you go

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around this thing and you feel the sting of it.

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Sometimes it doesn't click. But at some point, at some point,

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even human beings get it in our minds to say,

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you know what, m M, I'm not about that unnecessary

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pain life. I am not about turning away from the

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one who loves me toward the one who clearly hates me,

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the one who pulls the rug from under me after

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I have done God forbid things that please the enemy.

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You see where I'm going with this, but let me

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keep reading here. The exercise of force is contrary ooh,

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somebody needs to hear this. The exercise of force is

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contrary to the principles of God's government. He desires only

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the service of love. So he is not going to

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bind you in a room with some kind of proverbial

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or spiritual handcuffs and say that you're gonna love me

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no matter what. He's not going to dress you up

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like a dolly baby in some creepy movie scene. No,

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he is giving all of us the privilege of seeing

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his love, of allowing the enemy to go so far

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and no further, just so we can see the nature

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of our enemy. But God is always there. He's always watching,

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so that we can make not only an informed decision,

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but a solid, eternal decision. One day we will have

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made our final choice for God or against him. Let

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me keep reading here. Here we go only by love

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is love awakened. To know God is to love him.

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Can somebody attests to that and say I love God?

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Like if you say, before you type anything in the chat,

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if you're saying that you love God, that means you're

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saying that you also know him. You have a close

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relationship with him. You walk with him, and you talk

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with him, and you put your plans before him, and

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you are allowing God to transform your mind and to

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either stamp to approve your plans, or to guide you

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to another pathway as his providence may indicate. Okay, so

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if you say in the chat, now you love him,

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this is what you're saying. And more. Got to know

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God is to love him. His character must be manifest

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in contrast to the character of Satan. You want to

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know why so many terrible things are happening on planet Earth,

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besides the fact that the enemy is evil and does

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not care about you and wants to seek to kill

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and to destroy. Besides that, God is allowing it so

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that we can know very clearly what we're up against.

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And by the way, sometimes people are saying, oh, well,

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that is why would God allow that? Well, listen, God

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is the one that can restore all things and make

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them better than where they were before the destruction. You understand,

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So don't worry about that part. I just want to

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say that God has free will too. I just want

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to let that settle in like God has free will too.

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I wrote that in my notes at the top of

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my lesson. Jesus, while living as a human being, could

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have chosen I'm talking about after he put on human flesh,

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as the prophets mentioned, right after he put on human flesh,

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he could have chosen to not go through with saving us.

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You realize when he was in the garden of Getsemite,

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under the load of our guilt, under the load of

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our shame, under the load of ours sin, that Jesus

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could have decided when when he was sweating as it

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were great drops of blood. He could have not said nevertheless,

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not as I will, as thou wilt, but as I.

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He could have said the opposite of what he actually said.

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I'm getting the words mixed up, but you know what

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happened there. And he could have decided even after that,

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when he was on the cross, he could have said,

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you know what I'm gonna call right now, twelve legions

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of angels and destroy all of these wicked people cry

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and crucify him. He could have said, these humans are

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going to get what they deserve, as opposed to him saying,

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oh God, please forgive them, for they know not what

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they do. He could have chosen that, and he also

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could have chosen unfortunately. No, I shouldn't say that. I

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take that back. Edit that out, y'all. If you're listening,

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edit that out of your brain. Forget the unfortunately part.

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He could have chosen to sin, Thankfully he didn't. He

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could have chosen to sin. I was trying. I was

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about to say, unfortunately, he could have chosen to sin.

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But if I put that word in there, unfortunately, then

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that means that I am questioning the method that God chose,

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like I am not questioning that. So fortunately, he could

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have chosen to sin, and I'm very thankful that he,

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even more fortunately chose not to sin. He chose to

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allow the Holy Ghost to lead in his life while

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he was living on planet Earth as a human. I

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need you to understand this was not a test, it

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was not an exhibition. Jesus could have chosen to sin,

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but thank god Jesus made the right choice and didn't.

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What's your choice?

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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,