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02 05 2025 A Repenting God · 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 Wednesday, February five,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle 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 it's a question repenting God? What penting God? Mm hmmm.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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  Speaker 2: is one of the ways that we continue to build
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  Speaker 2: we will get underway in heaven. Thank you for giving
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  Speaker 2: us this new day and for the fact that you
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  Speaker 2: are consistent. You love us. You are also just and
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  Speaker 2: holy at all times. Father, I pray that you will
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  Speaker 2: give us the fullness of your holy spirit, the understanding
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  Speaker 2: we need in order to do your will. And then
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  Speaker 2: the impetus give us the power, give us the wind
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  Speaker 2: in our sails, the drive to actually do what you say.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again are
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  Speaker 2: repenting God. Hmm. Interesting. I'm going to read one passage
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  Speaker 2: and then go into the lesson straight so we can
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  Speaker 2: really make sense of this discussion. The Bible reads in
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  Speaker 2: Exodus chapter thirty two, and I actually, I actually alluded
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  Speaker 2: to this yesterday. Exodus thirty two, verse fourteen. The Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: and the Lord repented of the evil which he thought
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  Speaker 2: to do unto his people. H repented? Well, let me
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  Speaker 2: read it in another translation. Then the Lord relented over
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  Speaker 2: the evil that he said he would do to his people.
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  Speaker 2: Now that's a different discussion, isn't it. Okay, So in
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  Speaker 2: our understanding when we are thinking about the Bible, we
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  Speaker 2: often think of repentance like in reference to sin, like
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  Speaker 2: we repent, we have godly sorrow for sin. Okay, Well,
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  Speaker 2: that's only part of the definition, and that's related to sin,
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  Speaker 2: got it. But there is more to what repentance means.
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  Speaker 2: It actually literally means. Think of it visually, it means
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  Speaker 2: to turn the shoulder. So it's not only godly sorrow
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  Speaker 2: for sin. It's not only turning toward God and away
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  Speaker 2: from sin. Sin being the focus here, but it also
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  Speaker 2: visually literally means to turn the shoulder. So if you're
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  Speaker 2: going in the easterly direction or eastward direction, and you
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  Speaker 2: turn your shoulder, you make an about turn. Then that
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  Speaker 2: means you're now going in the west or the direction
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  Speaker 2: of the west, exactly the opposite of the direction you
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  Speaker 2: were going. And so here, obviously, God can't repent because
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  Speaker 2: he's when evil is concerned, because God has never committed
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  Speaker 2: sin like this is sacrilege to even consider intimate that
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  Speaker 2: God can be evil or do evil at all. The
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  Speaker 2: Bible actually talks about that. Absolutely not. But he can relent,
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  Speaker 2: he can do something opposite of what he was going
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  Speaker 2: to do. There are people who have chosen to hold
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  Speaker 2: on to hatred. There are people who have chosen to
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  Speaker 2: live their lives according to fear instead of holiness. And
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  Speaker 2: then they, by the power of the Holy Ghost or we,
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  Speaker 2: as the case may be, I me too, have turned
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  Speaker 2: my shoulder and decided to live a holy life. And
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  Speaker 2: therefore the condemnation that may have come to my life
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  Speaker 2: in the end analysis I'm talking about the end of
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  Speaker 2: all things now is no longer coming. Why or why not?
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  Speaker 2: Because God is relenting from what that outcome would have been,
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  Speaker 2: but would have been. I am no longer running away
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  Speaker 2: from Him and Therefore, the outcome for me according to
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  Speaker 2: God's laws, according to his principles, according to his tender mercy,
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  Speaker 2: where He has transformed me. Now the outcome for me
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  Speaker 2: is eternity with him. Okay, and so and so, what
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  Speaker 2: the lesson writer asks is can God repent? In quotes?
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  Speaker 2: If so, what would that mean? We have seen that
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  Speaker 2: God's character never changes. We talked about that yesterday, didn't we. However,
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  Speaker 2: some biblical texts speak of God repenting or relenting. At
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  Speaker 2: least for humans, repentance involves recognition one has done something wrong.
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  Speaker 2: How then can some biblical passages depict God as repenting.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to another passage and then we'll we'll we'll
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  Speaker 2: put a rap on this. We'll probably need to go
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  Speaker 2: into our community at your Daily Portion dot com sign
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  Speaker 2: up there and have this discussion more because there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot in this. So we go to Jeremiah chapter eighteen,
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  Speaker 2: and we will read beginning at verse four, and the
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads and the vessel that he made of clay
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  Speaker 2: was marred. Who is the vessel? That's me, that's you.
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  Speaker 2: You're the vessel that was marred in the hand of
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  Speaker 2: the potter, and he made it again another vessel has
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  Speaker 2: seemed good to the potter to make it. Then the
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  Speaker 2: word of the Lord came unto me, saying, oh, House
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  Speaker 2: of Israel, can I not do with you as this
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  Speaker 2: potter seth? The Lord behold, as the clay is in
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  Speaker 2: the potter's hand, So ye are ye in mine hand, o,
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  Speaker 2: House of Israel. At what instant I shall speak concerning
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  Speaker 2: a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck it up
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  Speaker 2: and pull down and to destroy it. If that nation
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  Speaker 2: against whom I have pronounced, I need you to get
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  Speaker 2: this I've already illustrated it earlier. I've said it very clearly.
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  Speaker 2: But if that nation, what nation? Maybe it's me, maybe
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  Speaker 2: it's you, Maybe it's someone else. Uh maybe if that
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  Speaker 2: I mean not, maybe if that nation, if that nation
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  Speaker 2: turn from their evil. So now the nation is repenting
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  Speaker 2: from evil, I will repent of the evil that I
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  Speaker 2: thought to do unto them. So that means that God
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  Speaker 2: is going to relent. He's going to change or adjust
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  Speaker 2: what was going to happen, because he is always holy,
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  Speaker 2: he is always just. It is unjust to destroy, it
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  Speaker 2: is unjust to condemn people who are living according to
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  Speaker 2: God's principles. But if God forbid an unrepentant people who
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  Speaker 2: are dogged against God and choose to embrace hatred, choose
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  Speaker 2: to embrace fear and not accept God to transform them.
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  Speaker 2: Then that means that destruction will ultimately come. Will it
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  Speaker 2: will ultimately come? But God is saying that I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to turn away from that. I will relent. And at
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  Speaker 2: what instant I shall speak concerning a nation and concerning
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  Speaker 2: a kingdom, to build and to plant it. If I
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  Speaker 2: do evil, if it do evil in my sight that
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  Speaker 2: I obey, and that obey not my voice, then I
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  Speaker 2: will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would
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  Speaker 2: benefit them. So it goes both ways. So what we
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  Speaker 2: are saying here is that the character of God is set.
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  Speaker 2: He is always holy, he is always just, He is
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  Speaker 2: always good. Now in the end analysis, after he has
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  Speaker 2: given us mercy, after he has shown us how he
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  Speaker 2: can transform us and positioned us to be transformed, our
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  Speaker 2: decision will determine our outcome. See, so God is good?
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  Speaker 2: How good is he? He is going to allow us
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  Speaker 2: to live according to the desires of our hearts, sometimes
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  Speaker 2: for good, but Lord God forbid, sometimes for evil.
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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,