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03 08 2025 What More Could I Have Done · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
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  Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
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  Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna the word of God to
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  Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
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  Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Sabbath, March eight,
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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 God's Love and Justice under the caption what
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  Speaker 2: more could I Have done? What more could I have done?
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you
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  Speaker 2: to go over to your Daily Portion dot com please
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  Speaker 2: join our online community. Also, please please let us know
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  Speaker 2: where you are in the world at your Daily Portion
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  Speaker 2: dot com. This is one of the ways that we
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  Speaker 2: continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  Speaker 2: and then we will get underway. Father, I do thank
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  Speaker 2: you for giving us the privilege of coming into your
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  Speaker 2: presence this Sabbath morning, and for loving us enough to
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  Speaker 2: give us your son. Father, Please fill us with your
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  Speaker 2: Holy spirit today in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and
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  Speaker 2: Amen again. What more could I have done? I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to read a passage of scripture and then a story
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  Speaker 2: right out of the lesson study, and let's see what
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  Speaker 2: we can glean also from our companion guide in applying
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  Speaker 2: this to our personal lives. Okay, So from the Bible
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  Speaker 2: Book of John, chapter eighteen and verse thirty seven, the
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads Pilot therefore said unto him, are you a king?
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  Speaker 1: Then?
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  Speaker 2: Jesus answered, you say rightly that I am a king
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  Speaker 2: for this cause I was born, and for this cause
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  Speaker 2: I have come into the world, that I should bear
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  Speaker 2: witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth
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  Speaker 2: hears my voice. I just want to settle down right
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  Speaker 2: there for one moment before we get into the actual lesson.
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  Speaker 2: If you are not regularly hearing the voice of God,
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  Speaker 2: and when I say voice, it doesn't always need to
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  Speaker 2: be audible. But when I say voice, I am saying
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  Speaker 2: if you are not regularly sensing the guidance of God,
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  Speaker 2: which he has promised by the way he promised that
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  Speaker 2: he will be with us, he promised never to forsake us. Well,
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  Speaker 2: if you are not regularly experiencing the guidance of God
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  Speaker 2: and at times just being very clear, being very aware
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  Speaker 2: that He is with you, and knowing the direction, the
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  Speaker 2: pathway that you should be taking, then the question is
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  Speaker 2: are you am I of the truth? Am I of
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  Speaker 2: the truth? If I am not sensing God's words, sensing
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  Speaker 2: his presence in my life, seeing that He is guiding
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  Speaker 2: me along the pathway of righteousness, then am I of
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  Speaker 2: the truth? Okay, we'll get into that throughout the week.
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  Speaker 2: If the Lord spaars life, so let me read this
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  Speaker 2: story directly out of the lesson you have it you
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  Speaker 2: can follow along some years ago and inspire in oh
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  Speaker 2: part of me not inspirational and insightful. Children's story was
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  Speaker 2: printed in Guide magazine. The story focuses on a boy
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  Speaker 2: named Dennis and orphan living as a foster child with
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  Speaker 2: a family in medieval times. Dennis passionately hates the King
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  Speaker 2: of his land, because when his parents are sick, the
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  Speaker 2: King's soldiers carried him away and he never saw them again.
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  Speaker 2: Only later did he learn that the King separated them
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  Speaker 2: in order to spare the living all the horrors of
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  Speaker 2: the black plague. The truth about the King sets Dennis
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  Speaker 2: free from the hatred that he had harbored against his
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  Speaker 2: against him his entire life. The King had always and
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  Speaker 2: in every case, acted out of love for his people.
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  Speaker 2: Did you get that? Now, let's make it make sense.
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  Speaker 2: Many people today view God somewhat like Denis viewed the King.
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  Speaker 2: The evil they have witnessed or experienced brings them to
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  Speaker 2: hate or dismiss God. Where is God when there is suffering?
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  Speaker 2: If God is God, why is there so much evil?
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  Speaker 2: The Cosmic conflict sheds light on this crucial issue, But
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  Speaker 2: many questions remain. Yet, when all our attempts at answers
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  Speaker 2: fail to satisfy, we can look to Jesus on the
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  Speaker 2: cross and see in him that God can be trusted,
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  Speaker 2: even with all the questions that remain unanswered. And get
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  Speaker 2: this last part for now. There are many questions. Why
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  Speaker 2: do bad things happen to good people? Bad things happen
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  Speaker 2: to Jesus? Why does it seem like the evil or
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  Speaker 2: the wicked prosper. Well, they don't say seems why does
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  Speaker 2: the wicked prosper? Why do the wicked people prosper? Well?
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  Speaker 2: Do they? What does it mean to prosper? Are you
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  Speaker 2: talking about material wealth? Are you talking about it? Seems
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  Speaker 2: that they have blissened their families? Well to what end?
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  Speaker 2: You know, these things have an expiry date on planet Earth.
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  Speaker 2: So really, our focus should not be other people. Our
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  Speaker 2: focus should be connection with God every single day that
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  Speaker 2: we live. You see in the story that Dennis Dennis
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  Speaker 2: because he had an immature mindset, and he should like
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  Speaker 2: he's he was a young boy. But some of us,
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  Speaker 2: some of us have immature mindsets as fully grown believers
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  Speaker 2: in air quotes, are we believers if we don't actually
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  Speaker 2: believe what God says? But anyway, Dennis as a young boy,
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  Speaker 2: he has an immature mindset, understandably so. But then we
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  Speaker 2: see in the story that the king was looking out
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  Speaker 2: for him. The black plague was running through the population,
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  Speaker 2: and the king had to separate so that the people
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  Speaker 2: would not be destroyed by the plague. Yeah, maybe we
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  Speaker 2: could say in twenty twenty five, looking way back to
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  Speaker 2: those days. Well, that should have been communicated. I get it.
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  Speaker 2: But you know what, sometimes the king, the king of
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  Speaker 2: the universe, is not going to communicate the minute details
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  Speaker 2: to us. And if we have a mature spiritual mindset
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  Speaker 2: when we are in relationship with God, then we, like
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  Speaker 2: Job say, though he slay me, yet will I trust
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  Speaker 2: in him? And really and truly God was not slaying Job,
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  Speaker 2: but that was his perspective while he was under pressure.
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  Speaker 2: I've never heard a preacher say that God was not
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  Speaker 2: actually slaying Job. You let that settle in Like, God
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  Speaker 2: was not slaying Job, but Job felt that he was.
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  Speaker 2: And so if God in fact is slaying me, I
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  Speaker 2: will still trust in him. Remember the three Hebrew young
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  Speaker 2: men Michel Hananayah as a Riah as they were about
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  Speaker 2: to be thrown into the fiery furnace, and the king
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  Speaker 2: was saying, listen, all you have to do is bow,
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  Speaker 2: just like the devil said to Jesus. All you have
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  Speaker 2: to do is bow, and I will give you whatever
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  Speaker 2: positive outcome fill in the blank here. And they said,
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  Speaker 2: we do not want that reward. We don't want to
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  Speaker 2: save our lives if it means to bow and do
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  Speaker 2: something evil. Our God will in fact and indeed deliver us.
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  Speaker 2: But if he does not, If he does not, we
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  Speaker 2: still this is what they said, We still will not bow.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, Okay, God, give me that kind of faith.
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  Speaker 2: Please give every person under the sound of my voice
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  Speaker 2: that kind of faith. And so we go into our
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  Speaker 2: our Life Application guide. I'm going to page one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and sixty seven here and we're going to the personal application. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: Remember we're looking for a win win. What is important
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  Speaker 2: now when facing personal challenges, Remember that God's love is constant,
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  Speaker 2: even in moments of suffering. Just like Dennis misunderstood the
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  Speaker 2: King's intentions, we too might misinterpret God's actions in our
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  Speaker 2: lives when we don't see the complete picture. I internalize
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  Speaker 2: the insight. Consider times in your life when you felt
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  Speaker 2: distant from God or misunderstood his actions. How has this
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  Speaker 2: understanding of his love through Jesus Christ changed your perspective?
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  Speaker 2: And now we need action. The next best move in
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  Speaker 2: invest time in prayer, asking God for the wisdom to
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  Speaker 2: trust him even when his plans don't seem clear. Well,
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  Speaker 2: God doesn't tell us everything, but what he does to
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for joining us listening to his friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember We cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,