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12 29 2024 Beyond Reasonable Expectations · 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 Sunday, December
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  Speaker 2: twenty nine, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,
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  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
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  Speaker 2: new Lesson study series. God's love and justice are like
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  Speaker 2: how those go together their balanced God's love and justice
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  Speaker 2: and our ca option for today is beyond reasonable expectations.
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  Speaker 2: Beyond reasonable expectations. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  Speaker 2: but before we do, I'd like to say welcome to
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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 and then we will get underway. Father
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  Speaker 2: and Heaven, thank you for this new work weeknd for
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  Speaker 2: the privilege that you have given us to behold your love,
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  Speaker 2: the love that you have toward us. Please help us
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  Speaker 2: to live as though we embrace your love and then
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  Speaker 2: give it to others freely. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen,
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  Speaker 2: and a man again beyond reasonable expectations. Okay, So the
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  Speaker 2: first thing that I wrote in my lesson was the
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  Speaker 2: word agape. That's one of the four ways that love
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  Speaker 2: is described in the original language of the New Testament
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  Speaker 2: agape or agapao, depending on where we are in the text.
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  Speaker 2: I love you in spite of what you do. I
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  Speaker 2: love you in spite of what you do. That is
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  Speaker 2: that is unconditional love. It's it's the fullness of godly love,
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  Speaker 2: the fullness, the fullest expression of godly love. For God's
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  Speaker 2: soul loved the world that he gave his only begotten son,
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  Speaker 2: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have
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  Speaker 2: everlasting life. Okay, And so the question is is it
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  Speaker 2: reasonable to expect God to love us to the degree
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  Speaker 2: that when his children, the children of Israel, erected the
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  Speaker 2: Golden Calf while he was up in the mount or
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  Speaker 2: really he had Moses up in the mountain, then into
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  Speaker 2: the cloud, giving him the Ten Commandments for his people,
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  Speaker 2: giving him the blueprint for the plan of salvation, that
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  Speaker 2: is the sanctuary. Is it reasonable for God to love
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  Speaker 2: his people when they created a false God, right while
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  Speaker 2: he was teaching them not to have any gods before him,
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  Speaker 2: right after he is delivering them from Egyptian captivity slavery,
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  Speaker 2: right as he is making them holy, they are making
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  Speaker 2: themselves unholy. Moses thinks they're at war, and God is like, no, No,
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  Speaker 2: that is not the sound of war. That is the
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  Speaker 2: sound of my people turning their backs on me. They
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  Speaker 2: are false worshiping another God. Is it reasonable for us
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  Speaker 2: to expect that God would love them after that, And
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  Speaker 2: really we need to personalize it immediately, like, is it
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  Speaker 2: reasonable for God to continue to love me? When I
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  Speaker 2: have promised over and over again? Father, if you will
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  Speaker 2: get me out of this I'm talking about the collective eye,
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  Speaker 2: like all of us have done one or many of
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  Speaker 2: these things. If you get me out of this problem,
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  Speaker 2: then I will fill in the blank. Lord. If you
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  Speaker 2: will do X, then I will do why. And then
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  Speaker 2: we break our promises. Father, I won't do X again.
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  Speaker 2: Just please help me, and then we break our covenant
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  Speaker 2: with God. Is it reasonable for God to continue to
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  Speaker 2: love me in that regard? Well, of course the answer
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  Speaker 2: is absolutely not. Is it is unreasonable? But this is
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  Speaker 2: not the standard. Reason is not the standard. We don't
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  Speaker 2: worship reason. We don't use intellect and reasonability to try
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  Speaker 2: to describe God.
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  Speaker 1: Like.
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  Speaker 2: God does things that are beyond our expectations. You see,
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  Speaker 2: humans would turn our backs on each other. God does
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  Speaker 2: not turn his back on us. Huh. Humans would only
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  Speaker 2: give us what we deserve. But God does not give
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  Speaker 2: us what we deserve. Humans would would say, okay, you
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  Speaker 2: take one step and I'll take two or whatever. But
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  Speaker 2: God does not do that. God makes all of the
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  Speaker 2: first steps to empower us to step lively into a
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  Speaker 2: relationship with Him. And so God has a perfect track
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  Speaker 2: record of love. And we can read now what Moses
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  Speaker 2: was experiencing while the people of God were turning their
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  Speaker 2: backs on God. And in the Bible Book of Exodus,
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  Speaker 2: chapter thirty three, we read beginning at verse fifteen, and
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  Speaker 2: he said, unto him, if thy presence go not with me,
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  Speaker 2: carry us not up hence, for where shall it be
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  Speaker 2: known here that I and thy people have found grace
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  Speaker 2: in thy sight? So he's looking for the favor of God.
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  Speaker 2: He is looking for the grace that comes from God,
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  Speaker 2: the approval of God. How am I gonna know that
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  Speaker 2: you're really literally with us? God, Please do not let
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  Speaker 2: us go into this mess of a life without you.
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  Speaker 2: Do not let us go into the wilderness. Do not
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  Speaker 2: take us up out of Egypt unless we know that
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  Speaker 2: we have your favor. And the Bible continues. The Bible continues,
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  Speaker 2: and the Lord said, unto Moses, verse seventeen, I will
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  Speaker 2: do this thing. I will do this thing also that
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  Speaker 2: thou hast spoken for, thou hast found grace in my sight.
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  Speaker 2: And now I know thee by name. And he said,
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  Speaker 2: I beseech THEE show me thy glory. What a lofty request,
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  Speaker 2: Show me thy glory. And he said, I will make
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  Speaker 2: all of my goodness past before THEE, and I will
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  Speaker 2: proclaim the name of the Lord before THEE, and will
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  Speaker 2: be gracious to whom I will be gracious. See Moses
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  Speaker 2: didn't fully understand this yet until the Golden Calf incident.
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  Speaker 2: While he was up in the mount. He was listening
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  Speaker 2: to this conceptually. But when he went down and saw
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  Speaker 2: his brother leading that ridiculous circus of false worship, he
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  Speaker 2: could realize, Oh, wait a minute, God actually will have
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  Speaker 2: mercy on those he will have mercy. He will be
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  Speaker 2: gracious to those he will have grace upon. And the
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  Speaker 2: Bible continues in verse twenty and he said, thou canst
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  Speaker 2: not see my face. See he's even showing grace here.
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  Speaker 2: Moses said, show me thy glory. But if you've seen
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  Speaker 2: all of the glory of God. I said, all of
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  Speaker 2: the glory of God in the fullness, then you're gonna die.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says, there shall no man see me and
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  Speaker 2: live verse twenty one, and the Lord said, behold, there
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  Speaker 2: was a place by me that thou shalt stand upon
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  Speaker 2: a rock, and it shall come to pass while my
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  Speaker 2: glory passeth by that I will put thee in the
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  Speaker 2: cliff of the rock, and will cover thee with my
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  Speaker 2: hand while I pass by. Moses craved the presence of God?
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  Speaker 2: Do you crave the presence of God? Are you looking
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  Speaker 2: for an opportunity every day to experience God in the
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  Speaker 2: fullness of what He can reveal to you so you
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  Speaker 2: can overcome those doubts, overcome those fears, be overcome with
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  Speaker 2: God's love. Are you looking for an opportunity for God
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  Speaker 2: to manifest himself in and through you. I'm talking about
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  Speaker 2: in your spiritual development, in your personal development, huh, in
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  Speaker 2: those relationships at your workplace or in your business. This
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  Speaker 2: is why I have this application guide, the Life application Guide. Again,
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  Speaker 2: go to your Daily Portion dot com to pick it
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  Speaker 2: up and look at today's lesson for that and so
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  Speaker 2: really the outcome that we're looking for, or let's just
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  Speaker 2: pick in the relationship setting. The next best move would
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  Speaker 2: be to make an intentional effort to show grace to
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  Speaker 2: someone in your life this week, whether by forgiving an
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  Speaker 2: offense or reaching out in kindness. Let God's unconditional love
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  Speaker 2: be your guide let's go into the professional application for
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  Speaker 2: the next best move. There are three items generally, but
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  Speaker 2: let's go to the next best move. Take action by
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  Speaker 2: offering grace in a workplace situation where it's needed. Whether
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  Speaker 2: it is a second chance or a simple word of encouragement.
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  Speaker 2: Let your actions mirror God's love. God's love is beyond
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  Speaker 2: reasonable expectations.
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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,