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06 23 2025 A Work of Repentance · 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 2: 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 3: Good morning, good morning, Good morning, it is Monday. It's
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  Speaker 3: June twenty three, in twenty twenty five. Hello, my name
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  Speaker 3: is El David Harris. I am your host, and this
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  Speaker 3: is your Daily Portion where we give you God's word
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  Speaker 3: every single day, and today is no exception. We are
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  Speaker 3: continuing in our final week of the Lesson study series
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  Speaker 3: how to study Bible Prophecy, and our caption for today
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  Speaker 3: is a work of repentance. Pardon me, a work of repentance,
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  Speaker 3: and to repent is to have godly sorrow for sin,
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  Speaker 3: and to turn the shoulder go in the opposite direction
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  Speaker 3: of that sin, directly into a right relationship with God.
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  Speaker 3: Before we get into that, i'd like to just say
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  Speaker 3: welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for
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  Speaker 3: ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's
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  Speaker 3: go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 3: we thank you for this day and for your the
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  Speaker 3: privilege you've given us to open up your word and
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  Speaker 3: to turn away from our sins. Please help us to
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  Speaker 3: do that today and help other people, help other people
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  Speaker 3: to get into right relationship with you, so that one
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  Speaker 3: day we can all live together eternally in your presence
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  Speaker 3: in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and amen again. A
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  Speaker 3: work of repentance. Let me just say, repenting is good work.
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  Speaker 3: It's good work, turning the shoulder, turning our backs on
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  Speaker 3: our sins and our face toward the God who saved
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  Speaker 3: us through Jesus Christ. It's a work, but it's a
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  Speaker 3: good work. Now, just imagine having a conversation with God.
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  Speaker 3: I want you to imagine having a conversation with God.
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  Speaker 3: In fact, you should be having conversations with God. That's
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  Speaker 3: called prayer. Praying is like speaking to God as to
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  Speaker 3: a friend. But hold on for a moment. But just
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  Speaker 3: imagine now if you were angry, And maybe you shouldn't
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  Speaker 3: imagine that you're angry, but the concept is still there.
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  Speaker 3: It applies. Imagine you're angry. You're angry with God. And
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  Speaker 3: the worst thing you can say about God is that
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  Speaker 3: he's good. God, I knew you would be good. Does
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  Speaker 3: that sound crazy?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: Does that sound ridiculous? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Well, that is the discussion that Jonah had with God.
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  Speaker 3: He's in evangelist and prophet of the Most High God,
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  Speaker 3: blessed be his name. And God told him that he
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  Speaker 3: needed to preach a certain message to the people in
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  Speaker 3: Nineveh to give them an opportunity to repent, to turn
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  Speaker 3: away from their sins, to receive by the Holy Ghost
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  Speaker 3: godly sorrow for sin, and turn away from their sins.
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  Speaker 3: And turn their faces toward God. He had that privilege
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  Speaker 3: to teach, preach, and preach that message. But I told
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  Speaker 3: you yesterday how that went. And of course or she
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  Speaker 3: would have read it in the scriptures. But there came
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  Speaker 3: a point when he did actually preach the message God
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  Speaker 3: gave to him, and the people for that time, forget
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  Speaker 3: the rest of the story for this moment, but for
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  Speaker 3: that time, they actually did respond. They repented, they turned
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  Speaker 3: away from those sins. Yes, they repented. And now the evangelist,
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  Speaker 3: whose only purpose is to help people repent and get
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  Speaker 3: close to God.
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  Speaker 2: He was upset with God. Well why was he upset
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  Speaker 2: with God?
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  Speaker 3: He was upset with God because God is good.
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  Speaker 2: God.
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  Speaker 3: I told you you wouldn't destroy them. Now they're gonna
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  Speaker 3: see me as a false prophet. God, I knew that
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  Speaker 3: you were going to make me look bad by causing
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  Speaker 3: these people to actually repent.
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  Speaker 2: Do you see how ridiculous that is? Can you imagine?
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  Speaker 2: God gives you the word in season to help someone
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  Speaker 2: to deliver themselves from foolishness, to deliver themselves from sin,
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  Speaker 2: and as God gives you the ability to do so,
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  Speaker 2: you're upset with God because he did so. Come on, man, Jonah,
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  Speaker 2: what is your problem? Do you have more regard for
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  Speaker 2: things that are not human beings than you do for
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  Speaker 2: people whom Christ. Of course we wouldn't have used those
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  Speaker 2: words back then, but ultimately Christ would have died to
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  Speaker 2: save can you imagine? Well, that was Jonah's reality. But
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  Speaker 2: what we want now is to have a different mindset
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  Speaker 2: toward repentance, a different mindset toward God. We want to
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  Speaker 2: actually do what God says and be delighted when God
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  Speaker 2: is merciful, Blessed be his name. He is the beneficent,
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  Speaker 2: the merciful one, and we love that about him. And
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  Speaker 2: so in Jonah, chapter three and verse ten, the Bible says,
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  Speaker 2: and God saw their works, that is the people that
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  Speaker 2: God sent Jonah to preach to, that they turned from
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  Speaker 2: their evil way, and God repented of the evil. That
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  Speaker 2: means he said, I'm not going to destroy them. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not going to destroy them. This is what happened. And
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  Speaker 2: so the lesson here is that God God's warnings always
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  Speaker 2: invite repentance. God is not just saying I'm warning you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm warning you like some people on the road, how
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  Speaker 2: warn you, I'm warning you. What God is saying is
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  Speaker 2: I'm giving you the opportunity to amend your ways. I'm
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  Speaker 2: giving you the opportunity to listen to me. I'm giving
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  Speaker 2: you the opportunity to accept my love and stop pushing
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  Speaker 2: me away and rejecting me. I'm giving you the opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to live godly. Here is your opportunity. And so his
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  Speaker 2: warnings always invite us to repentance. When people respond judgment
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  Speaker 2: or I should say condemnation, condemnation can be delayed or
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  Speaker 2: completely averted. That is the desired outcome that God's mercy
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  Speaker 2: will loom heavy over us. And if He, because He's merciful,
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  Speaker 2: gives us the opportunity to repent, then we can repent
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  Speaker 2: and of course avert the worst possible outcome, separation from God.
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  Speaker 2: And so we want to keep a repentant heart. I said,
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  Speaker 2: keep a repentant heart. Don't throw it away, don't put
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  Speaker 2: it in the closet, don't put it under your bed,
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  Speaker 2: don't put it in the trunk of your car. I'm
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  Speaker 2: talking about I want you to embrace and hug and
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  Speaker 2: nurture a repentant heart, a repentant spirit, the kind that says,
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  Speaker 2: as soon as you are aware that there is a
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  Speaker 2: path that you're taking that's different than the path God
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  Speaker 2: wants you on. That through the Holy Ghost you sense
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  Speaker 2: the sorrow for your where you're going, and then are
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  Speaker 2: immediately ready, willing and available to turn the shoulder and
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  Speaker 2: make confession a part of your daily walk, saying exactly
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  Speaker 2: what is what the situation is with God? Agree with
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  Speaker 2: God about whatever it is that you're talking about you're
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  Speaker 2: dealing with, and then turn the shoulder, turn away from
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  Speaker 2: the sin so that you can remain aligned with God's mercy.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, we see, as I have said multiple days
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  Speaker 2: in a row in Revelation chapter eighteen, a call to repentance.
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  Speaker 2: But this call goes global. This call goes global, and
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  Speaker 2: it goes to the people who say that we love God,
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  Speaker 2: but somehow had gotten mixed up in confusing ways of
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  Speaker 2: connecting with Him, false types of worship, false connections with God,
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  Speaker 2: and other things that set themselves up as idols in
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  Speaker 2: place of God, and turning our backs on the seventh
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  Speaker 2: day Sabbath that the Bible talks about all throughout scriptures. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: and now we are willing to keep covenant with God.
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  Speaker 2: That repentance, that call to repentance goes out to the
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  Speaker 2: world and like Nineveh end time, Babylon receives a final call,
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  Speaker 2: a final call to repentance before condemnation falls, and so
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  Speaker 2: be part of sharing these messages, these messages while time
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  Speaker 2: still remains. Someone's deliverance may depend on your obedience. Are
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  Speaker 2: you a Jonah, Are you running away from the call
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  Speaker 2: to help someone get connected with God because you care
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  Speaker 2: about what people think of you? Or are you a
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  Speaker 2: faithful person, someone who is willing to do whatever it
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  Speaker 2: takes to teach the world that Jesus is indeed coming soon,
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  Speaker 2: but he's coming back for a people who are willing
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  Speaker 2: to repent and turn toward God. Make it a great day.
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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,