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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 Monday, March

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thirty one, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El

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David Harris. I am your host, and this is your

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Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,

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and today is no exception. We are continuing in our

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new lesson study series how to Study Bible Prophecy, and

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our caption for today is God wants to be understood.

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Wants to be understood. We'll get into that in just

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a moment, but before we do, I'd like to say

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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 in Heaven, thank you

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for giving us this new day and for the privilege

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that we have to study your word to be able

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to hear from you. And I ask you, Father to

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help us to get it in our minds that you

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really do want for us to understand you. In Jesus' name,

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I pray, Amen and a man again. Let me just

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say something really quickly as we begin here, that God

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is not playing pikaboo with us. And for those of

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you who are not familiar wherever you are in the

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world with the concept of pekaboo, I want you to

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look it up on the internet. Pee ka boo. It's

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a game that children play with their parents many times.

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But God is not playing peek a boo with us.

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And he's also not playing hide and seek. That's another one.

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Look that up if you're not familiar. I know every

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culture of the world doesn't necessarily play these games. But

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God is not putting himself in a position where he

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cannot be found and making it difficult for humans to

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actually connect with him. That is not what's happening. And

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sometimes people become frustrated because we have the wrong an

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idea about God and have the wrong perspective and think

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this is exactly what God is doing, and when we

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are not able to find him or discern him, then

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we get really, really really confused. And it's not that

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at all. What God wants is to find for us

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to find him. In fact, the Bible says that Jesus Christ,

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when he came into human flesh, his name was to

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be called the Manuel. That being interpreted God with us.

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You see. So God has in the Old Testament made

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his tabernacle or his tent with us, which is why

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we have everything we know about the sanctuary, so that

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we can be saved. Okay, And so the truth is

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that there are other reasons why we may not understand God.

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Now let's go into the Bible Book of Psalms, the

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Bible Book of Psalms, chapter one thirty nine, and begin

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with verse one. Okay, Oh Lord, you examine me and

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know you know when I sit down, and when I

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get up, even from far away, you understand. You carefully

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observe me. When I travel or lie down to rest.

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You are aware of everything I do. Certainly my tongue

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does not frame a word without you, oh Lord, being

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thoroughly aware of it. You squeeze me from behind, and

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in front, you place your hand on me. Your knowledge

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is beyond comprehension. It is far beyond me, and I

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am unable to understand or fathom it. We'll come back

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to the thought in a second. Just give me a moment.

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Psalm chapter one, forty seven and verse five. The Bible says,

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great is our Lord, and of great power. His understanding

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is infinite. I think you can see where this is going.

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Just give me a second. And Romans chapter eleven, verse

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thirty three, the Bible reads, Oh, the depth of the

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riches and wisdom and knowledge of God. How unsearchable are

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his judgments, and how unfathomable are his ways or his

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ways past? Finding out one more? First John chapter three,

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verse twenty, the Bible reads that if your conscience condemns,

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our conscience condemns us. God is greater than our conscience,

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and he knows all things. So we're going to look

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at a few areas of contrast between God and us. Okay,

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a few areas of contrast. Let's go with the scope

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the scope God. He is infinite. God is unlimited. Well, humans,

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by contrast, are finite. We are limited in all ways.

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Number two the death God. He is complete in his comprehension.

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He knows everything and understands everything. Well, humans have a

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surface understanding. We see some things, we may be able

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to discern something about them, but there are always illimitable

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spaces that we cannot even begin to understand, even in

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the things on planet Earth, much less in the eternal things. Okay.

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Number three Time God, past, present, and future. He's the

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one who was, the one who is the one who

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is to come. He's the eternal one. Blessed be his name.

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But we were limited by time. We are limited by

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time even when we enter into eternity as people who

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have yielded our will to God. I'm looking forward to

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the time that we will begin to inhabit eternity with God.

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Even then we will have had an origin, though we

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will have started somewhere. Yes, we will go throughout the

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ceaseless ages of eternity. If we're God's children. Ah, but

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we started somewhere. God didn't start anywhere. He's the one

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that was there from before there was a beginning. He's

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the one who has all ways been and then comes intimacy.

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God he knows the thoughts and motives of every human being,

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every being for that matter. But we we get mixed

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up about each other's motives. Why did you say that

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this way? You look really wonderful today, But what did

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I look like yesterday? You see what I mean? So

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we often misunderstand the thoughts and motives of others. And

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let me just give you a newsflash here. Sometimes we

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don't even understand our own thoughts and our own motives.

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The Bible says that the heart is deceitful above all things,

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and desperately wicked. Who can know it? But God knows

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and understands the thoughts and motives all the time. And

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then finally, the final category accuracy. God has perfect knowledge.

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Humans don't. Okay, that's too simple. We have we're prone

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to make errors, mistakes, error, sometimes forced errors. Errors. Okay,

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God perfect knowledge, but we are prone to err. Okay,

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And so now we go through the fact that even

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though we will never know and understand everything. We can

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understand what is necessary for connecting with God. And so

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the Bible reads in Two Timothy, chapter three, Verses fourteen

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and fifteen. You, however, must continue in the things you

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have learned and are confident about. You know who taught you,

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and how from infancy you have known the holy writings

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of the scriptures, which are able to give you wisdom

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for salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. You see, So

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now we can go into the word of God. Those

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sixty six blessed books, that the Holy Spirit moved upon

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them who were writing Ah and gave them the power

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to communicate the thoughts of God in that context. So

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that is where we begin. We begin with God's word.

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We begin with how it all relates to our salvation,

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and whenever we lack wisdom, we ask of God. And

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I wish I had the time. But there are some

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other things we need to recognize, as God being the creator,

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the creator, and that he universally loves us. And there

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is a prophetic purpose. There's a prophetic purpose where God

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is not going to do anything important without first revealing

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it through his servants.

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Speaker 1: The prophets make it a great day, Thanks for joining

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us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone,

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but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.

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This has been your daily portion with El David Harris.

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Make it a great day. Yeah,