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01 26 2025 Grieved by Evil · 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, January
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  Speaker 2: twenty six, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El
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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: Lesson study series God's Love and Justice under the caption
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  Speaker 2: Grieved by Evil, Grieved by Evil. We'll get into that
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  Speaker 2: in just a moment, but first I'd like to say
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  Speaker 2: we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and pray, and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven,
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  Speaker 2: thank you for giving us this day and for the
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  Speaker 2: new work week, the opportunity that we have to connect
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  Speaker 2: with You and with each other and to do meaningful
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  Speaker 2: things throughout the week. Right now, Father, please help us
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  Speaker 2: to embrace your mindset to hear, to hear how you
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  Speaker 2: think and how you feel about sin, and help us
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  Speaker 2: Lord to think and feel the same way you do.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if you recall there is a passage in
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  Speaker 2: scripture that says that we should not grieve the Holy
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  Speaker 2: Spirit of God. You know what is grief to God
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  Speaker 2: where evil is concerned. When we hear from Him, when
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  Speaker 2: we know to do right, we know to live right.
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  Speaker 2: We know that God is drawing us into his presence,
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  Speaker 2: into a relationship with him, and we resist him, or
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  Speaker 2: when we are in a relationship with him, and then
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  Speaker 2: the devil tempts us and decides that he wants us
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  Speaker 2: back on his side. And then, in you know, the
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  Speaker 2: passage of events throughout the day, we make decisions that
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  Speaker 2: put us back on the side of the enemy. You
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  Speaker 2: understand when he dangles the proverbial carrot before us and
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  Speaker 2: says that you know you want X, even though it
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  Speaker 2: is not what God said, you want it, don't you?
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  Speaker 2: You deserve it, don't you? And then God forbid some
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  Speaker 2: of us yield our will to that again, and it's like,
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  Speaker 2: how do we get here? And the Holy Spirit is grieved, God,
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  Speaker 2: our Father grieved, Jesus grieved. Why because we don't have
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  Speaker 2: to go down that path. God has made provision for
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  Speaker 2: us to overcome literally every besetting sin, everything that separates
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  Speaker 2: us from God. He has made provision for us to overcome. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: And so we go into the Bible Book of sat
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  Speaker 2: chapter seventy eight, and there's so much to see there.
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  Speaker 2: It took me some time to cherry pick some principles
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  Speaker 2: that we could look at and focus okay, And so
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna start with verse forty, chapter seventy eight, Verse forty,
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  Speaker 2: and we're seeing the recurrent mercy of God. Over and
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  Speaker 2: over again. God has given mercy to his people. And
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  Speaker 2: here is one example. How oft did they provoke him,
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  Speaker 2: meaning God, in the wilderness and grieve him in the desert?
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  Speaker 2: Now I read it in another translation. How often they
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  Speaker 2: rebelled against him in the wilderness and insulted him in
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  Speaker 2: the desert? How many times did God's people as he
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  Speaker 2: delivered them from captivity? They were already delivered physically from captivity,
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  Speaker 2: but spiritually their mindsets were still bound. Why did you
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  Speaker 2: bring us out here in the desert to kill us?
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  Speaker 2: Why did you take away from us the food that
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  Speaker 2: we had while we were in Egypt? Mark you. The
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  Speaker 2: food in Egypt was destructive to their health and their
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  Speaker 2: connection with God. And God was giving them food from heaven,
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  Speaker 2: Manna from heaven, bread from heaven. I think there's a
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  Speaker 2: song that says, feed me till I want no more.
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  Speaker 2: Fill my cup God. Yeah, And they murmured against God.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have water. Murmured, God, we don't have this, murmured,
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  Speaker 2: We don't know where Moses is make us a golden calf.
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  Speaker 2: Aaron murmured so many different things that the people of
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  Speaker 2: God would manufacture against him, and the Bible says that
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  Speaker 2: it was rebellion, it was insulting, It grieved God because
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  Speaker 2: God had been repeatedly showing them mercy, repeatedly showing his patience.
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  Speaker 2: Repeatedly he delivered them from everything that they needed to
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  Speaker 2: be delivered from, and they still murmured. And so we
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  Speaker 2: see the character of God. And of course we'll look
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  Speaker 2: at his patients again in verse forty one, and time
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  Speaker 2: and time again they turned back and tempted God and
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  Speaker 2: pained the Holy One of Israel. Let me say it
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  Speaker 2: another way. Again and again they tested God and provoked
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  Speaker 2: the Holy One of Israel. God's patience is demonstrated as
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  Speaker 2: he endures his people's continuous testing and provocation. Now we
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  Speaker 2: read in verse forty two they remembered not his hand.
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  Speaker 2: You see, I remember an inspiration. It says that we
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  Speaker 2: have no fear for the future except we forget how
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  Speaker 2: God has brought us in the past. There have been
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  Speaker 2: so many times that He has delivered you. I know
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  Speaker 2: some of you wake up and something goes wrong or
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  Speaker 2: what you consider to be wrong in your day, and
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  Speaker 2: you say, what now, how many things do I have
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  Speaker 2: to go through? I just need a break, And you
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  Speaker 2: begin to murmur, and it's like, but God has delivered
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  Speaker 2: you so many times in the past. And you just
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  Speaker 2: invoke the name of the Lord, which is a strong power,
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  Speaker 2: and you flee into that space with him and you
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  Speaker 2: can be safe. And you say, God, you said that
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  Speaker 2: you would be my resting place. I am not feeling
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  Speaker 2: RESTful at this moment. To all generations, would it just
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  Speaker 2: help me to embrace you as my resting place? Will
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  Speaker 2: you teach me to speak of you with the truth
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  Speaker 2: and reality of who you are? You see in Malachi
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  Speaker 2: and Malachi chapter three. You know, the Bible says that
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  Speaker 2: God listens, and he even writes down in a book
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  Speaker 2: like he listens to what we say about him. There
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  Speaker 2: are people who are choosing no longer to be his
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  Speaker 2: people because they say, well, what does it What does
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  Speaker 2: it benefit us to do what God says? Why should
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  Speaker 2: we continue to do and live according to His will?
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  Speaker 2: What benefit is it to me? And he says, I'm
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  Speaker 2: hearing you. I'm hearing you. It's your false witness. I'm
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  Speaker 2: hearing you with your provocations. I'm hearing you testifying in
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  Speaker 2: a way that is not true about me. And then
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  Speaker 2: he said, I am also hearing. I'm hearing my people
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  Speaker 2: who are continuing to be faithful, and those individuals he
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  Speaker 2: also marks, and he said that he's basically drawing a
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  Speaker 2: line in the sand between those who love him and
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  Speaker 2: who are for him and those who really just continue
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  Speaker 2: to rebel. Yeah, and so in verse thirteen of the
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  Speaker 2: same chapter, the Bible says that he divided the sea
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  Speaker 2: and caused them to pass through on dry land, and
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  Speaker 2: he made the waters stand up as a heap. Now,
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  Speaker 2: how could we turn our backs onto God? Who can
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  Speaker 2: do that? Are you serious? Do you realize what a
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  Speaker 2: sea is like? How do you cause the sea to
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  Speaker 2: stand up and cause the bad of the sea to
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  Speaker 2: be dry so that your people can walk through? What
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  Speaker 2: a God? With those same people, God forbid? Some people
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  Speaker 2: like us, God forbid? They said, you know what, m M,
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  Speaker 2: God is not faithful?
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So, even as his people rebelled, God continued to
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  Speaker 2: provide miraculous deliverance, even as they were leaving captivity. And
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  Speaker 2: then one more, one more, for he remembered that they
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  Speaker 2: were but flesh, a wind that passeth away and cometh
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  Speaker 2: not again. In verse thirty nine. God has compassion and
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  Speaker 2: he is passionate, but he is grieved by evil. Stop
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  Speaker 2: grieving him. 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,