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01 18 2025 God Is Passionate and Compassionate · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
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  Speaker 1: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
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  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Sabbath, January eighteen,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: where we give you God's word every single day, and
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  Speaker 2: today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson
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  Speaker 2: study series. This is lesson number four, God's Love and
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  Speaker 2: Justice under the caption God is passionate and compare passionate. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait to get into that. God is passionate
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  Speaker 2: and compassionate. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  Speaker 2: but first I'd like to say welcome to you and
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  Speaker 2: ask you to go over to your Daily Portion dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Please join our online community. Please please please let us
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  Speaker 2: know where you are in the world at your daily
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  Speaker 2: portion dot com. This is one of the ways that
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  Speaker 2: we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and pray, and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for this new Sabbath morning, and for the
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  Speaker 2: privilege you have given to us to consider your word together.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for all of the sisters and brothers around
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  Speaker 2: the world who are here with you and we are
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  Speaker 2: worshiping together. I pray that you will transform our lives,
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  Speaker 2: make us more compassionate, help us to be passionate about
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  Speaker 2: the right things. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and
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  Speaker 2: Amen again. God is passionate and compassionate. And so of
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  Speaker 2: course I put dot dot dot or ellipsis and said,
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  Speaker 2: well what about me? Am I passionate? Am I compassionate?
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  Speaker 2: Is it true that I am in touch with my emotions?
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  Speaker 2: But I am not ruled by them. I am passionate
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  Speaker 2: and compassionate. Like, are there people that I can see
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  Speaker 2: who have needs? And my heart is drawn out to them?
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  Speaker 2: And I'm talking to God and saying, God, what can
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  Speaker 2: I do to be of service? Am I passionate and compassionate,
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  Speaker 2: And so the lesson writer uses for a memory text
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  Speaker 2: Isaiah chapter forty nine and verse fifteen, which reads, I
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  Speaker 2: can a woman forget her nursing child? See there is
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  Speaker 2: there's compassion there. There's compassion there a woman who is
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  Speaker 2: fully connected to her child, that baby that she carried,
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  Speaker 2: whether all the way to full term or if they
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  Speaker 2: became early, but now is here ready to take from
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  Speaker 2: the mother's breast milk. She is showing compassion. Okay, can
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  Speaker 2: a woman forget her nursing child and not have compassion
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  Speaker 2: on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget,
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  Speaker 2: And so God is saying that, of course she will
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  Speaker 2: have compassion. But she is a human after all, Like
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  Speaker 2: there are times that humans lose our passion and compassion,
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  Speaker 2: or we're passionate about the wrong things, and we disconnect
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  Speaker 2: from other humans. There are times that this happens, And
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  Speaker 2: so the Bible says, surely they may forget, Yet I
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  Speaker 2: will not forget you. And so God is now using
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  Speaker 2: one of the tenderest and most committed relationships that is
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  Speaker 2: in the scriptures, are in the life of every human.
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  Speaker 2: Like the connection between I mean a mother and her
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  Speaker 2: new child is the stellar example of compassion and care.
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  Speaker 2: You understand selflessness. I know there are humans that make mistakes.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not getting into that today, but God is saying
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  Speaker 2: even with that, I'm telling you that I have even
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  Speaker 2: more compassion for you than the mommy has for that baby.
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  Speaker 2: And so you need to think about it, think about
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  Speaker 2: it very clearly, and say, but God, how can I
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  Speaker 2: be like this? Well, we're going to go through some
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  Speaker 2: Bible passages. You can read what the lesson writer posits
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  Speaker 2: there when you have an opportunity, but we're going to
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  Speaker 2: go through some Bible passages to really think about this deeply. So,
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  Speaker 2: emotions do reflect God's nature. And I'm not talking about emotionalism.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not talking about being out of control with your emotions.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying that God has given us emotions and that
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  Speaker 2: is a reflection of His nature. And the Bible says
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  Speaker 2: in Genesis, chapter one and verse twenty seven. So God
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  Speaker 2: created humankind in his own image, in the image of God.
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  Speaker 2: Created he him, male and female created He them. So
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  Speaker 2: we were created in the image of God. We have emotions. Therefore,
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  Speaker 2: our emotions come from God. Part of the image of
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  Speaker 2: God is our emotions. You see where this is going. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so we'll just pause right there. We'll pause right there now.
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  Speaker 2: In Psalm eighty six and verse fifteen, the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: but Thou, o Lord, art full of compassion. You see,
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  Speaker 2: if we're created in the image of God and we
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  Speaker 2: have emotions, that means that He's given us these emotions,
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  Speaker 2: and he must also have them. But he is in
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  Speaker 2: control of his okay, we can be in control of ours. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: But it says that he is full of compassion. This
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  Speaker 2: means that we can be full of compasis. I know
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  Speaker 2: that we see all kinds of creepy evil stuff in
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  Speaker 2: the news these days, and some of us have experienced
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  Speaker 2: this by our caregivers so called, by people who thought
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  Speaker 2: that they or said that they had romantic interests in us,
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  Speaker 2: and they did all kind of evil against us without compassion.
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  Speaker 2: Women have been abused by their husbands, and men have
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  Speaker 2: been abused by their wives. You see, children have been
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  Speaker 2: mistreated and even trafficked. God forbid, And the Bible is
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  Speaker 2: telling us that is not the nature of God. He
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  Speaker 2: has compassion, and he's gracious. Continuing in the passage, he's
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  Speaker 2: long suffering. That means that he is patient and he
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  Speaker 2: is plenteous in mercy and truth. So since we have
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  Speaker 2: gotten our emotions from God, then now we see what
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  Speaker 2: that looks like, at least in this one example. So
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  Speaker 2: throughout the Bible, God expresses emotions such as love and anger, compassion,
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  Speaker 2: suggesting that emotions are not only natural, but vital and
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  Speaker 2: as an as an aspect of relational dynamics. So relationships
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  Speaker 2: sometimes require each one or some of those particular emotions.
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  Speaker 2: And so we continue now from the Book of Proverbs,
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  Speaker 2: chapter fourteen and verse twenty nine. The Bible reads, he
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  Speaker 2: that is slow to wrath, we're talking about anger and
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  Speaker 2: the manifestation of our anger, that that leaps out from us,
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  Speaker 2: and it seeks reprisals and retribution, and sometimes it disrespects people. Right,
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  Speaker 2: he that is slow to be that way, slow to wrath,
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  Speaker 2: is of great understanding. But he that is hasty of
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  Speaker 2: spirit exalted folly. Let me read it in another version.
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  Speaker 2: The one who is slow to anger has great understanding,
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  Speaker 2: but the one who has a quick temper exults fully.
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  Speaker 2: So if you want to be foolish, then let your
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  Speaker 2: temper just go. If you want to be seen as
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  Speaker 2: not having any understanding, then let your anger just go.
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  Speaker 2: You see. So the Bible is telling us that the
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  Speaker 2: ones who are pausing and are slowing down through submission
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  Speaker 2: to God and his will slowing our wrath. We believe
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  Speaker 2: and understand God. Okay, let's continue. Let's continue to John
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  Speaker 2: chapter eleven and verse thirty five. This is the shortest
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  Speaker 2: passage of scripture, and it's referencingen referencing Christ. The Bible says,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus wept. Jesus wept at a time when his emotions
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  Speaker 2: were high because he saw that his children did not believe.
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  Speaker 2: He saw that his children thought that Lazarus being sick
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  Speaker 2: and then die was the end of the story. Even
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  Speaker 2: though Jesus is right there and he's weeping because they
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  Speaker 2: are distraught, even though the one who is the resurrection
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  Speaker 2: and the life is right there in front of them.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus wept. There are times that we will weep. There
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  Speaker 2: are times that we will have joy. There are times
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  Speaker 2: that we will have indignation, illustrating that experiencing and expressing
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  Speaker 2: emotions are natural and integral to full human existence. You see.
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  Speaker 2: So God is passionate, He is compassionate, but he gives
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  Speaker 2: us self control and gives us the charge to be
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  Speaker 2: 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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  Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
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  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
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  Speaker 1: portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,