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03 06 2025 Limits and Rules · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
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  Speaker 1: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
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  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
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  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, good morning. It is Thursday, March six,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El 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, almost done with lesson number ten, God's Love
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  Speaker 2: and Justice, and our caption for today is limits and
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  Speaker 2: rules and Rules. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  Speaker 2: but first I'd like to say welcome to you and
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  Speaker 2: We're not answering questions for everything in the scriptures, but
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  Speaker 2: what's related to this lesson and of course entertaining discussion
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  Speaker 2: surrounding the lesson. Also pick up your Daily Portion Life
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  Speaker 2: Application Guide that is also a way to enhance our
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  Speaker 2: connection with God. Through the study of this quarterly it
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  Speaker 2: is giving us four ways to apply in our real
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  Speaker 2: lives what we are studying. Sometimes what we're studying seems
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  Speaker 2: super spiritual, and we don't know how to apply those things.
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  Speaker 2: And so that's why we have published this for the
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  Speaker 2: second quarter in a row now, and we're determining whether
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  Speaker 2: we're going to go into quarter two twenty five with it. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway.
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  Speaker 2: Father in heaven, thank you for giving us this new day.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for giving us the privilege of prayer. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for giving us the opportunity to do your will.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for giving us the fullness of your Holy
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  Speaker 2: spirit in these last days. Help us not to give up. Father,
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  Speaker 2: Help us to trust you, knowing that it won't be long.
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  Speaker 2: It won't be long before Jesus will come and finally
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  Speaker 2: all of these evil things that happen on planet Earth
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  Speaker 2: will be resolved in Jesus' name, I pray Amen and
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  Speaker 2: a men again. What I'd like for you to do
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  Speaker 2: pardon that sound. What I'd like for you to do
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  Speaker 2: is type in the chat you're on social media, you're
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  Speaker 2: on YouTube, and maybe you're listening on a podcast, and
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  Speaker 2: so you can put that in the comments section as well.
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  Speaker 2: What are you tired of on planet Earth the way
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  Speaker 2: that it is right now? What are you tired of?
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  Speaker 2: I personally am tired of death and dying. Like I'm
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  Speaker 2: tired of people that we love going to sleep, even
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  Speaker 2: though it is a sleep. And hopefully the people that
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  Speaker 2: we love are connected to God. But we were not designed.
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  Speaker 2: We were not designed to miss our loved ones. We
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  Speaker 2: were not designed to have to have funerals and memorials
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  Speaker 2: and remembrances and thanksgiving services for people who have died.
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  Speaker 2: That is not how God designed us. He designed us
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  Speaker 2: to live with Him forever. But sin has gotten in
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  Speaker 2: the way. I'm tired of the month being longer than
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  Speaker 2: the money for so many people around the world. I've
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  Speaker 2: been there, the month is longer than the money. The
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  Speaker 2: money stops in week two or or day one after
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  Speaker 2: paycheck day, and then the month continues for another thirty days.
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  Speaker 2: I'm tired of that. I'm tired of people being evicted
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  Speaker 2: from their homes. I'm tired of people having to be
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  Speaker 2: convicted of crimes and going to prison. I'm tired of
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  Speaker 2: the pain and suffering that comes through tribal warfare and
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  Speaker 2: other kinds of warfare around the world. I'm tired of
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  Speaker 2: those things. But really, and truly, we don't have to
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  Speaker 2: do this forever. We don't have to be tired forever.
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  Speaker 2: There are limits and rules that govern how long and
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  Speaker 2: how much of this we will endure. And so the
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  Speaker 2: lesson writer says, the cosmic conflict is primarily a dispute
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  Speaker 2: over God's character caused by the devil's slanderous allegations against
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  Speaker 2: God's goodness. Is justice and his government. It is a
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  Speaker 2: kind of cosmic covenant lawsuit. Such a conflict cannot be
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  Speaker 2: settled by sheer power, but instead requires demonstration. Now what
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  Speaker 2: do we see. We get to see that when we
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  Speaker 2: exercise the power of choice that God has given to us.
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  Speaker 2: Let me give an example. We're in a relationship. Now
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  Speaker 2: we're married. In my case, I'm married to Simone. She's
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  Speaker 2: my wife. There are opportunities every day for growth. There
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  Speaker 2: are opportunities where God positions us to have peace, to
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  Speaker 2: have bliss, to love one another. And of course the
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  Speaker 2: devil is always trying to tempt us, tempt us not
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  Speaker 2: to see that each of us have the best for
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  Speaker 2: the other in our minds, tempting us to allow the
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  Speaker 2: trials and temptations related to our personal experiences to leak
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  Speaker 2: into our marital situation so that we become self focused,
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  Speaker 2: you see. And so we have a decision to make.
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  Speaker 2: Is God able? That's the question that we need to
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  Speaker 2: resolve today. Is God able to keep us in perfect peace?
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  Speaker 2: Our minds are stayed on Him even in our marital relationship.
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  Speaker 2: And of course the answer is yes, Is God able
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  Speaker 2: to help us get through every trial, in every temptation? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: every transition of life. Yes, we are getting older, like
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  Speaker 2: we're in our fifties. This is not a joke. Like
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says that you have seventy years and if
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  Speaker 2: by reason of strength you get some more, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we've run through most of those years already. And even
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  Speaker 2: though we feel youthful in all of that, and people
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  Speaker 2: say age is just a number, well it's not just
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  Speaker 2: a number. The fact is that we are all aging
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  Speaker 2: toward a predictable ending on planet Earth. Every human, if
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  Speaker 2: there is enough time on planet Earth, will experience death,
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  Speaker 2: and many humans will actually die themselves. And so God
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  Speaker 2: is putting limits on the enemy in the meantime to say,
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  Speaker 2: only this much death and no more, only this much
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  Speaker 2: suffering and know more. And people who choose to serve me,
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  Speaker 2: even though we will all be impacted by God. But
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  Speaker 2: people who choose to serve me Jesus saying I will
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  Speaker 2: be with them. I will be with them always, even
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  Speaker 2: to the end of the Earth. When you are not
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  Speaker 2: able to deal with those problems on your own, we
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  Speaker 2: can all go to God to get the kind of
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  Speaker 2: help that we need. Of course, I'm oversimplifying, and so
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  Speaker 2: really there are a few things that we need to
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  Speaker 2: look at as action items, ways that we continue to
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  Speaker 2: connect with God while we are going through these trials
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  Speaker 2: on planet Earth. Number one, strengthen your faith through daily
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  Speaker 2: communion with God. The Bible reads in Matthew chapter thirteen
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  Speaker 2: and verse fifty eight, and he did not do many
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  Speaker 2: miracles there in a particular place when Jesus was on
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  Speaker 2: planet Earth because of their unbelief. You see the way
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  Speaker 2: that we can be believing people. Trusting God kind of
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  Speaker 2: people is if we have daily communion with Him. I
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  Speaker 2: don't trust people that I don't know. And God is
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  Speaker 2: giving us the invitation to be in his presence every day,
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  Speaker 2: to be able to speak to him, which I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to talk about in a second. Every day hear from
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  Speaker 2: him every day. Just be in his presence to the
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  Speaker 2: degree that when he does speak, we trust what he says.
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  Speaker 2: Number two, make prayer a priority. Prayer a priority. Inspiration
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  Speaker 2: says that prayer is like opening the heart to God
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  Speaker 2: as to a friend. Is that what you see prayer as?
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  Speaker 2: Is that how you see your connection with God through prayer?
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  Speaker 2: That you are speaking to a friend, listening for God's
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  Speaker 2: voice as if he is your best friend. Yes, with
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  Speaker 2: all your best interest at heart, I hope.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 2: Number three trust God's ultimate victory despite what looks like
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  Speaker 2: present limits. The Bible reads in Romans chapter eight and
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  Speaker 2: verse eighteen, for I reckon that the sufferings of this
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  Speaker 2: present world. So we're not hiding from the reality of
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  Speaker 2: the sufferings. We're not playing peekable and making it seem
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  Speaker 2: as if these things will just vanish before our eyes.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says, for I reckon that the sufferings of
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  Speaker 2: this present time are not worthy to be compared with
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  Speaker 2: the glory which shall be revealed in us. And yes,
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  Speaker 2: we will go through these trials, we will go through tribulations.
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  Speaker 2: There will be limits. However, in the meantime and ultimately,
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  Speaker 2: as the devil is being judged. I think we talked
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  Speaker 2: about that yesterday. We know that his time is short,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm looking forward to the day that he gets destroyed. Peace.
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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,