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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 Sunday, February sixteen,

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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 Gud'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 is

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our Sovereign God. Do you believe that God is in

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control of all things? Our sovereign God. Do you believe

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that He is sovereign over all things? Yes? Okay, we'll

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

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This is one of the ways that we continue to

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

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

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for this day and for the privilege you have given

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to us to open up your word again and to

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open up our workweek. Father, please teach us your sovereignty.

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In Jesus' name, I pray a man and a man again,

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So I am going to share from our lesson this time,

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I'm going to allow my machine to do what it does.

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I call my machine mishkatoo dot o, mishikato dot oh

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shout shout out to the real mishka. But we'll get

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into that maybe at another point in time.

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Speaker 3: God is sovereign, the youth pastor taught his middle school group.

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That means he controls everything that happens. One puzzled middle

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schooler replied, so God was in control when my dog died.

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Why would God kill my dog. Trying to answer this question,

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the youth pastor replied, that's a tough one, but sometimes

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God lets us go through hard times so that we're

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prepared for even more difficult things in the future. I

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remember how hard it was when my dog died, but

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going through that helped me deal with an even more

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difficult time later when my grandma died. Does that make sense.

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After a long pause, the middle schooler replied, so God

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killed my dog to prepare me for when he is

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going to kill my grandma. People sometimes assume that everything

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that occurs happens just as God wants it to. Whatever

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happens in the world is precisely as God wanted to

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have happened. After all, God is almighty, How then could

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anything occur that God does not want to occur? Hence,

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no matter what happens, no matter how bad it was,

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God's will, that at least is what this theology teaches.

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Speaker 2: Okay, shout to the real Mishka Mishka May Bonner at

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the Central Jamaica Conference. Who is the best, best, best

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person that I have ever had a ride with me

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in terms of assisting with things that I do? So yeah, anyway,

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you have heard though from the Lesson study directly directly

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that there are times that people have internal conflicts like

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dissonance in our minds, trying to determine whether like God

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is fair? Is he just like what is it that

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God wants in my life? And an elder told me

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one time when I was a young elder. He said,

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he said, don't blame God for knowing everything. Do not

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blame God for knowing everything, not that he wills everything,

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not that he determines everything. So the fact that he

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knows that you fill in the blank with the thing

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that you despise the most in terms of injustice or

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in things that seem to be out of control. On

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planet Earth. Just because God knows these things doesn't mean

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that he determined these things. Just because he knows these

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things doesn't mean that he designed and ordained and wills

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these things. And You're like, but come on, Dave. You

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said that God is sovereign. You said that he is

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all powerful, Blessed be his name, And I'm like, yeah,

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I'm repeating what the scriptures say. That is absolutely right.

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But can I just say something and I want you

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all to listen keenly, and then I'll prove it to you.

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God does not always get what God wants. I need

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you to let that settle in and I need you

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not to turn away from this program. Now, do not

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let this program go off. Okay, God is not willing

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for anybody to be lost. I just need to prove

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that as quickly as possible so nobody misquotes me. I

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said God does not always get what God wants. Does

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God want you to be saved? Of course the answer

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is yes. Does he want everybody to be saved? Of

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course the answer is yes. Did Judas is Scariot choose

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to be lost? He's dead now? Judas is Scariot, the

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one who betrayed Jesus, did he choose to be lost?

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Yes he did, And so in the case of judas

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Is Scariot, God did not get what God desires. God

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is not willing that any should perish. See the Bible

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reads in two Peter, chapter three, verses eight through thirteen. Now,

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dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your

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notice that a single day is like a thousand years

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with the Lord, and a thousand years are like a

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single day. The Lord is not slow concerning his promise

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as some regard slowness, but is being patient toward you,

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because he does not wish for any to perish, but

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that all come to repentance. The reason Jesus is not

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here yet is because he wants as many people as

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possible to be saved. He knows that people are going

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to make the wrong decisions. He wants to give everybody

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ample opportunity, ample time, ample privileges to see his love

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and the contrast to the evil that comes from the enemy,

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so that everybody can be saved who is willing. But

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the fact is God does not always get what he desires.

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I think we're clear now. So God is not willing

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that anybody should perish, but that it all should come

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to repentance, but some people are going to choose to

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be lost. And so don't blame God for knowing everything,

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and do not blame God as if he determined or

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he for or day he willed every little thing on

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planet Earth. He did not foreordain or will that Eli

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would lose his connection with God. He did not foreordained,

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or intend or determine for King Saul to lose his

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connection with God. Your brother, your sister, your relatives who

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have chosen not to serve God. He did not will

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for that. He willed that we would all do what

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He has given for us to do, so that one

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day we can live in eternal bliss with Him. Now,

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God is not complicit in the way that male dominated

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society mistreats and abuses women. That is not God's will.

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And we could go down through a long list, but

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I'm gonna sit here. What did he do to remedy

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and restore the dignity and justice in these kinds of situations?

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I'll pick one. I'll pick one. There was a woman

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who was brought to Jesus who was caught in the

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quote very act of adultery. And these wicked men whose

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hands were not clean. Tried to get Jesus to execute

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this woman through stoning, and the Bible says that he

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did some writing on the ground and acts whoever is

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bringing her, who feels like they can charge her and

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can accuse her. If they are without sin, then let

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them condemn her. And to make a long story short,

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of course, those guys scurried and scampered away, and Jesus

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left with the woman says, I do not condemn you,

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ah go and sin no more. He empowered her, He

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restored her dignity. His will was for her to have that,

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not stoning.

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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,