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01 28 2024 The Days of Evil · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Most of us eat every day, some of us too much because yesterday's food
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  is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
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  of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all
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  of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
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  live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
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  author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good morning.
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  It is Sunday, January twenty eight, twenty twenty four. Hello,
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  my name is Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this is
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  your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today
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  is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson study series through the Book
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  of Psalms, and our caption for today is the Days of Evil, The
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  Days of Evil. We'll get in to that in just a moment, but
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  first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to please go over
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  to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join our online community. Also pick
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  up the Your Daily Portion book. This is a way that we can continue
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  to build faith and fellowship at your daily portion dot com. Let's go ahead
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  and pray, and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank
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  you for giving us this new week and this new day, and for the
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  privilege that we have to call on your name. I'm praying Father now that
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  you will deliver us from these days of evil, that you will deliver us
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  from all things that do not please you. In Jesus name, I pray
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  Amen and a men again the days of evil? All right? And so
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  I want to go down to the bottom of the lesson study and read a
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  quote from the book Desire of Ages before I get into the reading from the
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  Scriptures, and it comes from page six hundred and seventy one, and it
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  reads, the honor of God, the honor of Christ, is involved in
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  the perfection of the character of his people. Can I say that again,
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  the honor of God, the honor of Christ, is involved in the perfection
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  of the character of his people. Can I just say, just for a
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  moment here, that a lot of times we ask for God to do things
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  because we desire them, and we should. I mean, He wants us
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  to ask anything, and if it's according to his will, he will hear
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  us, and then he will grant the thing that we desire of him.
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  And so that's important. But at the same time, we see in the
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  time of Moses when God said he was going to destroy his people because there
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  is stiff necked people, and Moses said, for thine own name's sake,
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  do not destroy these people. These are your people, God. And so
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  what I want you to see in this quote is that the honor of God
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  and the honor of Christ is involved in the perfection of the character of his
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  people. So if you're having a problem with patience, then you can call
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  upon God and say, Lord, in order for me to honor you,
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  this is not a word play, Brothers and sisters, In order for me
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  to honor you, would you please please deliver me from this fill in the
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  blank like if you have a problem with patience, if you have a problem
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  with gossip, if Lord, it is honoring to you. We know that
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  it is honoring to you, It is honoring to Jesus. Could you please
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  deliver me from this gossiping tongue. It is an honor to you, it
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  is an honor to Jesus' father. Please, will you deliver me from my
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  impatience. Please make me more holy? Will you please make me a better
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  father, a better brother, a better sister, a better daughter. Will
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  you please please teach me how to listen for your voice in a new way
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  like Enoch did he walked with you. Because it is honoring to you,
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  it is honoring to Jesus. Will you please do so? And it is
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  not that God somehow is waiting for us to say the perfect catchphrase, because
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  the Bible does tell us that we don't know what to pray for as we
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  ought, but the Holy Spirit moans and groanings that cannot be uttered. So
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  we are clear on that. But let me just again say that because it
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  is honoring to God, it is honoring to Christ. Our goal is to
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  call our attention and to bring it into our prayer time so that we are
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  in alignment with God. That whatever it is that we ask, whatever it
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  is that we desire, it is about honoring God ultimately. Okay, And
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  so the question on the bottom of the lesson, how do you understand this
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  important truth and what should it mean in your own Christian life? I gave
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  you you an example, and so we're going to go back up to the
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  Book of Psalms, the Book of Psalms, chapter seventy four, and read
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  verse beginning at verse eighteen, and the Bible reads, remember this, that
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  the enemy hath reproached, Oh Lord, and that the foolish people have bla
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  hath blasphemed thy name, Oh, deliver not the soul of thy turtle dove
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  unto the multitude of the wicked. Forget not the congregation of the poor forever
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  have respect unto the covenant. Or the dark places of the earth are full
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  of habitations of cruelty. Oh, let not the oppressed return shame. Let
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  the poor and needy praise Thy name. Arise, O Lord, plead thine
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  own cause. Remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily. You see,
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  so again, the Psalmist is saying here about all of the oppressed, all
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  of the poor. And you see that citation about or that allusion to turtle
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  doves. Those individuals who had to offer the sacrifice of turtle doves were the
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  ones who didn't have the means to bring the larger sacrifice that was prescribed in
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  the sanctuary service. And so God is saying that the oppressed, the poor,
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  the needy, and all of these individuals who seem to have been forgotten.
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  For your own namesake, God, plead your own cause. Remember how
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  the foolish man reproaches the daily. Please come through for these people. Why
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  because the days are evil, because your name is at stake, Will you
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  do what you promised to do? You see, So when we are praying,
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  we are calling the power of God to bear on the things that he
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  has already said that he hates. The Psalmist seeks to grasp the great controversy
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  between God and the evil one. He points to God's unfathomable forbearance as well
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  as his infinite wisdom and power. The problem of evil in the Psalms is
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  primarily theological. It inevitably concerns questions about God. Thus, the destruction of
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  Jerusalem in the Temple is seen principally as a divine scandal because it provided an
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  opportunity for the heathen to blaspheme God, and I can continue reading, but
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  I won't. I think you get the point. And so when we see
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  in the Psalms that there are manifestations of evil like people who are proud continue
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  to seem to prosper. Now we call into discussion and not as if we
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  can, as if we can put God on trial, but we call into
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  discussion God, what does this mean about you? It means? Does it
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  mean that you are patient? And for it doesn't mean that you are holy?
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  And then you will at some point destroy those who are destroying others?
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  What does it say about God? This is what we need to be looking
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  for every time we read the scriptures. What does this say about you?
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  God? What does it say about you? And if we were to read
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  in a book of Psalms, chapter seventy nine, it looks like we won't
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  have enough time, But I'll read just a couple of verses. Psalm chapter
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  is seventy nine. We see this message repeated, and I will read beginning
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  at verse five, and the Bible reads again, how long wilt thou be
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  angry? Oh Lord? Forever shalt thy jealousy burn like fire. Pour out
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  thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, upon the kingdoms that
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  have not called upon thy name, For they have devoured Jacob and laid waste
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  his dwelling place. Oh, remember not against us former iniquities. Let thy
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  tender mercy speedily prevent us, For we are brought very low one more verse
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  verse nine, help us, o, Lord of our salvation, the glory
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  of thy name, and deliver us and purge away our sins for thy name's
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  sake. So you see that he is calling. The Psalmist is calling upon
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  the name of God to do what we know God's character is to do for
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  his name's sake, not to satisfy us, not to prove anything to us.
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  But in the days of evil, it is time for God to roar
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  from his sanctuary and arise and show that he is good. Indeed, have
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  a wonderful than Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot
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  live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of
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  God. This has been your daily portion with el David Harris, Make it
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  a great day. Yeah,