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01 27 2025 God Is Slow to Anger · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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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 Monday. It's
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  Speaker 2: January twenty seven, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is
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  Speaker 2: El David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every
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  Speaker 2: single day, and today is no exception. We are continuing
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  Speaker 2: in our Lesson study series God's Love and Justice, and
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today is God is Slow to Anger.
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  Speaker 2: God is slow to Anger. We'll get into that in
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  Speaker 2: just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway.
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  Speaker 2: Father in heaven, thank you for giving us this new
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  Speaker 2: day and for the privilege that we have to open
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  Speaker 2: up your word together. And Father, I'm asking you now
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  Speaker 2: to give us your spirit, give us your mentality, your mindset,
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  Speaker 2: so that we can live according to your principles. In
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  Speaker 2: Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. I have
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  Speaker 2: a question for you. Are you slow to anger? Are
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  Speaker 2: you slow to anger? It's a real question, not asking
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  Speaker 2: you to type it in the chat, I'm asking you
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  Speaker 2: to determine, like in your spirit, do you get angry
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  Speaker 2: quickly or slowly? Okay? And so of course now we're
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  Speaker 2: talking about God, and I'm going into the book of
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  Speaker 2: Jonah in a moment. But it just occurred to me
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  Speaker 2: that I need to share just a little bit out
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  Speaker 2: of the book of Exodus, chapter thirty four, so that
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  Speaker 2: we can see, so that we can see how God
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  Speaker 2: sees himself like the reality of God. And so Moses
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  Speaker 2: is speaking to God and he's you know, he's going
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  Speaker 2: through some things in his mind spiritually and emotionally, and
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  Speaker 2: he's saying, God like, here's the thing. You're asking me
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  Speaker 2: to do a lot here. And if you are asking
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  Speaker 2: me to do this, please be with me. And if
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  Speaker 2: you're not going to be with me, please do not
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  Speaker 2: send us. Don't send us to do what you have
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  Speaker 2: just said. And by the way, if I have found
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  Speaker 2: favor in you, please will you show me your glory?
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  Speaker 2: Or I should say, if you have found favor in me,
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  Speaker 2: will you show me your glory? And so the Bible
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  Speaker 2: basically teaches us in Exodus chapter thirty four, we're not
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  Speaker 2: going to stay there, so I can't fully develop the story.
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  Speaker 2: But the Bible says, and the Lord descended verse five
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  Speaker 2: in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed
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  Speaker 2: the name of the Lord. So we hear the Lord
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  Speaker 2: proclaiming his name, his own name. And the Lord passed
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  Speaker 2: by before him and proclaimed the Lord, the Lord God,
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  Speaker 2: merciful and gracious, long suffering, that's patient and abundant in goodness,
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  Speaker 2: in true and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity
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  Speaker 2: and transgression and sin, and that will by no means
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  Speaker 2: clear the guilty visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon
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  Speaker 2: the children and upon the children's children unto the third
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  Speaker 2: and fourth generation. And then Moses did the only thing
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  Speaker 2: that he could do. And Moses made haste and bowed
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  Speaker 2: his head to the earth and worshiped. And he said,
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  Speaker 2: if now I have found grace in thy sight, O Lord,
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  Speaker 2: let my Lord, I pray thee go among us, for
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  Speaker 2: it is a stiff necked people, and a pardon and
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  Speaker 2: part in our iniquity and our sin, and take us
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  Speaker 2: for thine inheritance. And so God did say very clearly
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  Speaker 2: that he is long suffering and merciful, and that means
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  Speaker 2: he's slow. He's slow to anger. And God is manifesting
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  Speaker 2: this reality because he knows that the people that he
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  Speaker 2: has to deal with are stiff necked and stubborn and
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  Speaker 2: do not do what he says when he says to
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  Speaker 2: do it. Until sometimes we are we are convinced somehow
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  Speaker 2: or converted, you see. And so this is the privilege
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  Speaker 2: that we have. We have the privilege of being like God.
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  Speaker 2: Now sometimes we're not like him. And the Bible says
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  Speaker 2: here in the Book of Jonah, huh, chapter four, beginning
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  Speaker 2: at verse one, but it displeased Jonah exceedingly well. What
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  Speaker 2: displeased Jonah the fact that God was slow to anger?
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  Speaker 2: What does Jonah not realize that the fact that God
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  Speaker 2: is slow to anger and is very merciful and abundant
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  Speaker 2: and grace and truth like, does he not realize that
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  Speaker 2: that's the only reason he's still here and he's not
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  Speaker 2: being destroyed? You see. God told him to go and
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  Speaker 2: to warn and to preach against the city of Nineveh.
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  Speaker 2: But the Bible teaches us that Jonah did the exact opposite.
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  Speaker 2: Long story short, God said, I'm going to destroy those people.
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  Speaker 2: You need to go do your part so I can
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  Speaker 2: save them. And He's like, I don't know. I think
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to go do something else because really and
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  Speaker 2: truly you are not going to do what you said,
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  Speaker 2: and then people are going to think that I'm a
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  Speaker 2: false prophet because you're not going to destroy the people,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't want to do that. This is basically
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  Speaker 2: what happened. And so now that God is showing mercy
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  Speaker 2: to Nineveh for this time, it displeases Jonah exceedingly. And
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  Speaker 2: he was angry, and he prayed unto the Lord and said,
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  Speaker 2: I pray thee O Lord. Was not this my saying
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  Speaker 2: when I was yet in my country. So this dude
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  Speaker 2: is trying to justify not doing what God said. He's
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  Speaker 2: trying to justify He's trying to say, See, I could
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  Speaker 2: have just gone the other way and not wasted all
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  Speaker 2: this time. God, I knew more than you knew what
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  Speaker 2: m take your time, Jonah. Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish,
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  Speaker 2: for I knew that thou art a gracious God and merciful,
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  Speaker 2: slow to anger, and out of great kindness and repentest
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  Speaker 2: thee of evil. Can you imagine being angry with someone.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about really angry with someone to the point
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  Speaker 2: that you want to say something to someone, and the
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  Speaker 2: best you can do is that I knew you were merciful.
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  Speaker 2: I knew that you were patient and slow to anger.
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  Speaker 2: I knew that you would be kind, and that you
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  Speaker 2: would repent of the evil, that you don't want to
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  Speaker 2: hurt anybody, that you take no pe pleasure in the
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  Speaker 2: death of those who die. God, I knew that you
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  Speaker 2: would be great. I knew that you would be kind.
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  Speaker 2: I knew that you would be good, And that's why
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  Speaker 2: I didn't want to do your will. What you see
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  Speaker 2: how twisted the human mind can be when we do
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  Speaker 2: not submit our minds and wills to God. The worst
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  Speaker 2: thing he could say about God in his anger is
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  Speaker 2: that God was good. Is God good in your life?
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  Speaker 2: M It's a rhetorical question, really, because if you say
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  Speaker 2: anything otherwise, it's something really wrong. Is God good in
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  Speaker 2: your life? And if the case, if he is indeed good,
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  Speaker 2: that means that when He sends you on a mission,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter what the mission is. When he sends
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  Speaker 2: you to people, he sends you to a place and
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  Speaker 2: you don't even understand the details about what he is
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  Speaker 2: trying to accomplish, especially when it comes to people who
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  Speaker 2: seem to be stubborn, people who seem to have stiff
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  Speaker 2: necks and don't don't want to do God's will when
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  Speaker 2: he sends you to people who don't yet love God.
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  Speaker 2: Just remember the story of Jonah, remember the story of Moses.
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  Speaker 2: That people, Yes, they are stubborn, they are stiff neck.
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  Speaker 2: But God is slow to anger. He's merciful, and he
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  Speaker 2: wants you to go and to share the ministry of
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  Speaker 2: mercy to them, even if it's a ministry of warning
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  Speaker 2: for the moment, but he wants the people to know.
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  Speaker 2: And then the Bible says, therefore, now, oh Lord, take
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  Speaker 2: I beseech thee my life from me. It's better to
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  Speaker 2: die than to live. What God is slow to anger,
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  Speaker 2: he is full of mercy. We don't take him for granted.
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  Speaker 2: In that regard, we do give God thanks. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: 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: portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,