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02 07 2024 Pour Out Your Indignation · 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 us
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  through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all of
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  that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to live
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  healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author
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  speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good morning.
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  It is Wednesday, February seven, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name
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  is Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this is your Daily
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  Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is no
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  exception. We are continuing in our lesson study series through the Book of Psalms,
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  and our caption for today is pour out your your indignation. Let me
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  say it again, pour out your indignation. And I want you to really
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  focus on the terminology your the Psalmist is speaking to God. Okay, yeah,
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  I'll come back to that in just a moment, But first I'd like
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  to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining for the very first
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  time, I'm asking you to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com.
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  Please also join our online community, pick up your Daily Portion book,
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  and also please let us know where you are in the world so that we
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  can continue to build faith and fellowship at your Daily Portion dot com. Let's
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  go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Rother and Heaven,
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  thank you for giving us this new day and for getting us to the
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  middle of the week. Lord, I pray that you will give us not
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  just the drive to get through our daily tasks, but to be able to
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  really pull up to your table and eat and feast from the tree ruths that
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  you share, and to be transformed in every way in our lives. In
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  Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and a man again, pour out your
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  indignation now. The reason I am emphasizing the terminology your and I actually underscored
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  mine and read and then put a big exclamation point over it is because sometimes
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  people are too vengeful. I shouldn't say too vengeful. Sometimes people are vengeful,
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  and God is saying no, no, no, no no no.
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  Vengeance is mine. But I don't want to preempt myself. I want to
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  begin here in Romans chapter twelve. Romans chapter twelve, and I will read
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  beginning at verse fourteen. Can I just say really quickly that humans are not
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  innately holy, that we borrow any holiness or any aspect of a holy mindset
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  from God. And so this is why the Bible says here beginning at verse
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  fourteen, Bless them that persecute you. Bless and curse, not rejoice with
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  them that do rejoice. Weep with them that weep. Be of the same
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  mind one toward another. Not mind not high things, but condescend to men
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  of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits, recompense no man
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  evil for evil did you get that? Provide the things honest in the sight
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  of all men. If it be possible, as much as liath unin you
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  live peaceably with all men, it says, if it's possible, be at
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  peace with everyone, Dearly beloved, avenge not yourself. So I need this
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  to be very clear, like clear, clear, clear, because there are
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  too many people who are seeking vengeance for themselves, but rather give place unto
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  wrath. For it is written and vengeance is mine. I will repay set
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  the lord who can recompense or who can bring vengeance. It says here,
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  vengeance is mine set the Lord, I will repay. Therefore, if thine
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  enemy be hungry, feed him. If he be thirsty, give him drink,
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  Or in so doing you shall he calls a fire on his head.
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  Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. And You're like,
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  Dave, why did you go through all of that? Because are you
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  trying to give an excuse for what we're going to read in the Psalms or
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  what is it? Well, frankly, sometimes we read these things wrong.
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  Yeah, sometimes we read these things wrong. Okay. So I've been struggling
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  for many years. I'll be honest with you with some of the Psalms because
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  I'm like, Lord, it just seems so harsh what these people are saying.
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  But it occurs to me that they are asking God to do what God
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  what God promised he would do to unrepentant evil. They're asking God to do
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  what God promised to do in the case of unrepentant evil. Okay. And
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  so if we were to read through the entire chapter of Deuteronomy twenty eight,
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  which we won't, you will see something very interesting. Let me just read
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  a few verses here, and it shall come to pass. If thou shalt
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  hearken diligently unto the voice of thy God. It says, to hearken diligently.
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  We're listening to God and doing his will right, to observe and to
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  do all his commandments, which I command thee this day, that the Lord
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  thy God will set THEE high above all nations of the earth, and all
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  these blessings shall come upon thee and overtake thee. If thou shalt hearken unto
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  the voice of the Lord thy God, blessed our thou to be in the
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  city, Blessed, shalt thou be. In the field Blessed shalt the fruit
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  of thy body be, the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of
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  thy cattle, the increase of thy kind and flocks of thy sheep. Blessed
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  shall be thy basket in store. Blessed shall be thou when thou comest in.
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  Blessed shalt thou be. When thou goest out, the Lord shall curse
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  thine enemies, and that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face.
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  They shall come out against THEE one way and flee before the seven ways.
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  The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in
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  that thou settest thine hand to do. He shall bless THEE in the land
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  which the Lord thy God giveth thee. The Lord shall establish thee in holy
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  place unto himself, as he's sworn unto thee. If thou shalt keep the
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  commandments of the Lord thy God and walk in his ways. And then the
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  Bible continues for several more verses, and then it makes a transition in verse
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  sixteen. In verse sixteen, it says, well, if you don't do
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  these things, cursed shalt thou be in the city. Curse shalt thou be
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  in the field. And so the curses come when we choose to go against
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  God's will. Yes, there was a context here, but all in justice.
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  God says he's going to deal with He's he's going to seek vengeance upon
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  those who are unrepentant and unjust, who are oppressors for those who do not
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  hold to the principles of holiness. And that is why when the Psalmist,
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  and I'll just give one example, Psalm chapter fifty eight and verse six,
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  he says, break their teeth, Oh God, in their mouth, break
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  out the teeth of the young lions, Oh Lord, let them melt away
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  as the waters which run continually when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows.
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  Let them be as cut into pieces as a snail which melteth. Let
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  every one of them pass away, like the untimely birth of a woman,
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  that they may not see the sun. And on and on in multiple verses
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  we go, and so what the psalmists are really doing is going back to
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  what God said in Deuteronomy chapter thirty, Deuteronomy chapter twenty seven, Deuteronomy chapter
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  twenty eight, verses sixteen through to the end, that there is a consequence.
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  There is a lasting consequence when people are oppressive to the poor and needy.
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  There is a lasting consequence when people choose to go against God and make
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  God's people their enemies and do not repent. There is a consequence to unholiness.
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  And these Psalmists are seeking God, God's vengeance, God's indignation, not
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  their own. Let me just say in closing that, as in psalm chapter
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  ninety four, verses one and two, Oh Lord, that God, to
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  whom vengeance belongeth, Oh God, to whom vengeance belongeth, show thyself lift
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  up yourself, Thou judge of the earth, render a reward to the proud.
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  So we want God to show his justice and vindication. We also want
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  to cultivate forgiveness and pray for our enemies. And lastly we want to advocate
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  for justice and speak against evil. Remember God's indignation not ours. Peace.
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  Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread
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  alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,