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01 30 2025 Show Compassion · 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 Thursday, January thirty,
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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, and our caption for
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  Speaker 2: today is show compassion. I said show compassion. I didn't
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  Speaker 2: say think compassionately. I didn't say internally advocate compassion. I
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  Speaker 2: said show compassion. 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
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  Speaker 2: so go ahead there. Also pick up the your Daily
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  Speaker 2: Portion Companion Guide for this quarter's lesson because we are
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  Speaker 2: applying these lessons and four key areas there. And also
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  Speaker 2: please let us know where you are in the world
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  Speaker 2: at your dot com. This is one of the ways
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  Speaker 2: that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and pray, rather we do thank you for this
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  Speaker 2: day and for the fact that you are so compassionate
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  Speaker 2: toward us. Please teach us to be compassionate toward others
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  Speaker 2: and even toward ourselves. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen
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  Speaker 2: and Amen again. You know, sometimes we judge ourselves, we're
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  Speaker 2: judgmental to ourselves, and we speak to ourselves internally in
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  Speaker 2: a way that that really if we were to say
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  Speaker 2: it to somebody else, it would be like abuse. We
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  Speaker 2: would consider it, consider it to be abusive. And so
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  Speaker 2: if we're going to be compassionate, one of the first
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  Speaker 2: people that we need to be compassionate toward is ourselves.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had the time really to deal with that.
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  Speaker 2: But the lesson study begins this way. While divine wrath
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  Speaker 2: is a quote terrible thing, it is by no means
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  Speaker 2: immoral or unloving. On the contrary, in the Old and
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  Speaker 2: New Testaments, God expresses wrath against evil because of his love.
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  Speaker 2: Did you get that God expresses wrath toward evil because
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  Speaker 2: of his love? There are times that you see people
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  Speaker 2: being abused and you want to jump in and be
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  Speaker 2: of service somehow and help and deliver the people who
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  Speaker 2: are being abused. And the law has to come into
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  Speaker 2: play here, and it has to be and that is
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  Speaker 2: a function of your love. Right, Divine wrath is terrible
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  Speaker 2: because of the insidious nature of evil in contrast to
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  Speaker 2: the pure goodness and splendor of God. Okay, one more
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  Speaker 2: thing in this regard. Love is essential to God. Wrath
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  Speaker 2: is not. Where there is no evil or injustice, there
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  Speaker 2: is no wrath. Did you get that where there is
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  Speaker 2: no evil or injustice that we don't need the wrath
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  Speaker 2: of God, and he does not show that right in
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  Speaker 2: the end, God's most loving action of eradication of evil
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  Speaker 2: from the universe also effectively will eliminate anger and wrath.
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  Speaker 2: I said a lot, thank you for the lesson.
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  Speaker 1: Writer.
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  Speaker 2: Let's look for compassion now for others for a little
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  Speaker 2: while here and in the Bible Book of Tewod Corinthians,
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  Speaker 2: chapter one, beginning at verse three, the Bible reads, Blessed
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  Speaker 2: be God, even our Father of our Lord, Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: the father of mercies. You see, God is the father
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  Speaker 2: of mercies, the God of all comfort, who comforteth us
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  Speaker 2: in all tribulation, that we may be able to comfort
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  Speaker 2: them that are in trouble by the comfort wherewith we
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  Speaker 2: ourselves are comforted by God God. And so therefore God
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  Speaker 2: comforts us and we can comfort others. There's no wrath there.
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  Speaker 2: There's no wrath there. And then we go to feeding
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  Speaker 2: the hungry and Matthew chapter twenty five and verse twenty
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  Speaker 2: in verse thirty five, for I was and hungered, and
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  Speaker 2: ye gave me meat. I was thirsty, and you gave
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  Speaker 2: me drink. I was a stranger and you took me in.
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  Speaker 2: And so God is saying that there are people who
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  Speaker 2: are what he considers to be the least of these
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  Speaker 2: his brethren. The way that we live toward them, the
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  Speaker 2: way that we act toward them, we are indeed acting
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  Speaker 2: toward God. So if we are feeding the hungry, clothing
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  Speaker 2: the naked, if we are unfortunately or please I hope
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  Speaker 2: this does not happen where you're concerned. If it's the opposite,
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  Speaker 2: we're discompassionate or abusive toward the same people, then this
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  Speaker 2: is the way that God is seeing how we are
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  Speaker 2: to wards others. And of course there is forgiveness and
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  Speaker 2: Colossians chapter three and verse thirteen, forbearing one another and
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  Speaker 2: forgiving one another. If any man have quarrel against any
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  Speaker 2: even as Christ forgave you, also do ye. And then
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  Speaker 2: the sick and imprisoned in Matthew chapter twenty five again,
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  Speaker 2: but this time verse thirty six, you were naked, naked
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  Speaker 2: and ye clothed me. I was sick, and Ye visited me.
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  Speaker 2: I was in prison, and Ye came unto me. And
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  Speaker 2: so God through Christ is identifying with the lame, the main,
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  Speaker 2: the blind, the broken, the people who are at a
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  Speaker 2: quote disadvantage. He is seeing himself as them, so that
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  Speaker 2: we must see him as them and treat them like
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  Speaker 2: we would treat God. And then verse twenty seven of
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  Speaker 2: James Chapter one, the Bible reads pure religion. I know
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  Speaker 2: people are saying, well, I'm not a part of a religion,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a part of whatever the idealistic term is that
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  Speaker 2: they use. What the Bible says that there is a
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  Speaker 2: pure religion. So don't be afraid of the term religion.
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  Speaker 2: What kind of religion? Pure religion and undefiled before God?
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  Speaker 2: And the Father is to visit the fatherless and widows
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  Speaker 2: in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
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  Speaker 2: I could go on and on and on and even
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  Speaker 2: about healing the broken hearted and binding up their wounds
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  Speaker 2: as in Psalm chapter one, forty seven and verse three.
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  Speaker 2: So we show compassion toward others because God, for Christ's sake,
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  Speaker 2: has shown compassion for us. Now, like I said, there
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  Speaker 2: is there is this vengeance of God and so forth
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  Speaker 2: that comes against evil. But God is not welcoming us
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  Speaker 2: into the idea that we should be vengeful. That is
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  Speaker 2: not for us. We are to show compassion, and vengeance
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  Speaker 2: belongs to God. Now, the Bible reads and Deuteronomy chapter
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  Speaker 2: thirty two and verse thirty five, to me belonge vengeance
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  Speaker 2: and recompense. Their foot shall slide in due time, for
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  Speaker 2: the day of their calamity is at hand, and the
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  Speaker 2: things that shall come upon them make haste. So the
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  Speaker 2: Bible teaches us that it is God who brings retribution,
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  Speaker 2: God who brings vengeance. And we've already said that when
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  Speaker 2: God reluctantly needs to do it, it's because he has
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  Speaker 2: to deliver the world from evil full stop. And in
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  Speaker 2: Proverbs chapter twenty and verse twenty two, the Bible reads it.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible reads, say thou not, I will recompense evil,
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  Speaker 2: but wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee.
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  Speaker 2: In chapter twenty four and verse twenty nine of the
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  Speaker 2: Book of Proverbs, the Bible, the Bible also reads, say not,
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  Speaker 2: I will do so to him as he hath done
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  Speaker 2: to me. I will render to the man according to
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  Speaker 2: his work. And we see in many other places in
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  Speaker 2: scripture where God, because he is one hundred percent righteous
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  Speaker 2: one hundred percent of the time, is responsible for this recompense.
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  Speaker 2: So reprisals wherever you are in the world, that is
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  Speaker 2: not for you recompense in that case, not for you,
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  Speaker 2: not for me. But God said vengeance belongs to him,
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  Speaker 2: and reluctantly he does it. We are to show compassion.
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  Speaker 2: Thank it a great day. Peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 2: 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,