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02 13 2025 Love and 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 Thursday, February thirteen,
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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, God's Love and Justice, and our caption for
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  Speaker 2: today is love and Evil. Mm hmm, love and Evil.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you
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  Speaker 2: faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then
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  Speaker 2: we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for
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  Speaker 2: giving us this new day and for loving us enough
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  Speaker 2: to give us your son. Thank you for giving us love,
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  Speaker 2: giving us the antidote against evil. Father, Please teach us
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  Speaker 2: to serve you with all of our hearts today in
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  Speaker 2: Jesus name, I pray Amen again. Okay, so we're still
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  Speaker 2: discussing I don't know if you would say interplay or
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  Speaker 2: the tension between free will and people making the wrong decisions.
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  Speaker 2: But the reality is, as I've said to you for
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  Speaker 2: the last couple of days, that we all have the choice.
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  Speaker 2: We have a decision to make. Are we going to
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  Speaker 2: choose to love God He loves us like He loved
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  Speaker 2: us first, so it's not a difficult decision. Or are
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  Speaker 2: we going to allow the world and the devil and
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  Speaker 2: the things that went wrong in our lives and the media,
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  Speaker 2: and all kinds of other things, even sometimes church hurt
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  Speaker 2: to determine that we will hate, love or be in
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  Speaker 2: fear of God, meaning to be afraid of God, like
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  Speaker 2: what is the decision that you're going to make? And
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  Speaker 2: so love and evil, love and evil. Let me go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and begin with the quote here from the book
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  Speaker 2: The Desire of Ages, and I will read at page
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  Speaker 2: twenty two, and it reads, the earth was dark through
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  Speaker 2: misapprehension of God, meaning people didn't understand God, that the
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  Speaker 2: gloomy shadows might be lightened, that the world might be
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  Speaker 2: brought back to God. Satan's deceptive power was to be broken.
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  Speaker 2: So God's goal in this discussion here was for people
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  Speaker 2: to really get to understand who he is, meaning God.
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  Speaker 2: And the contrast is stark, like the devil and how
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  Speaker 2: he moves his manner of bullying and pressuring and cajoling
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  Speaker 2: and drawing and tempting and deceiving people, pressing people with trials.
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  Speaker 2: God wanted that reality to be seen very clearly so
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  Speaker 2: that when we do make a decision it's a solid one.
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  Speaker 2: It's a solid one that we don't have to second
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  Speaker 2: guess because we know, unfortunately, what it's like to be
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  Speaker 2: on the wrong side of this thing. And people who
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  Speaker 2: have been bitten, like some people say here in Jamaica Land,
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  Speaker 2: we love once bitten twice shy. You understand like the
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  Speaker 2: first go around or the first few times you go
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  Speaker 2: around this thing and you feel the sting of it.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes it doesn't click. But at some point, at some point,
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  Speaker 2: even human beings get it in our minds to say,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, m M, I'm not about that unnecessary
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  Speaker 2: pain life. I am not about turning away from the
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  Speaker 2: one who loves me toward the one who clearly hates me,
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  Speaker 2: the one who pulls the rug from under me after
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  Speaker 2: I have done God forbid things that please the enemy.
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  Speaker 2: You see where I'm going with this, but let me
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  Speaker 2: keep reading here. The exercise of force is contrary ooh,
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  Speaker 2: somebody needs to hear this. The exercise of force is
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  Speaker 2: contrary to the principles of God's government. He desires only
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  Speaker 2: the service of love. So he is not going to
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  Speaker 2: bind you in a room with some kind of proverbial
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  Speaker 2: or spiritual handcuffs and say that you're gonna love me
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  Speaker 2: no matter what. He's not going to dress you up
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  Speaker 2: like a dolly baby in some creepy movie scene. No,
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  Speaker 2: he is giving all of us the privilege of seeing
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  Speaker 2: his love, of allowing the enemy to go so far
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  Speaker 2: and no further, just so we can see the nature
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  Speaker 2: of our enemy. But God is always there. He's always watching,
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  Speaker 2: so that we can make not only an informed decision,
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  Speaker 2: but a solid, eternal decision. One day we will have
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  Speaker 2: made our final choice for God or against him. Let
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  Speaker 2: me keep reading here. Here we go only by love
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  Speaker 2: is love awakened. To know God is to love him.
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  Speaker 2: Can somebody attests to that and say I love God?
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  Speaker 2: Like if you say, before you type anything in the chat,
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  Speaker 2: if you're saying that you love God, that means you're
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  Speaker 2: saying that you also know him. You have a close
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  Speaker 2: relationship with him. You walk with him, and you talk
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  Speaker 2: with him, and you put your plans before him, and
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  Speaker 2: you are allowing God to transform your mind and to
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  Speaker 2: either stamp to approve your plans, or to guide you
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  Speaker 2: to another pathway as his providence may indicate. Okay, so
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  Speaker 2: if you say in the chat, now you love him,
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  Speaker 2: this is what you're saying. And more. Got to know
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  Speaker 2: God is to love him. His character must be manifest
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  Speaker 2: in contrast to the character of Satan. You want to
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  Speaker 2: know why so many terrible things are happening on planet Earth,
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  Speaker 2: besides the fact that the enemy is evil and does
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  Speaker 2: not care about you and wants to seek to kill
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  Speaker 2: and to destroy. Besides that, God is allowing it so
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  Speaker 2: that we can know very clearly what we're up against.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, sometimes people are saying, oh, well,
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  Speaker 2: that is why would God allow that? Well, listen, God
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  Speaker 2: is the one that can restore all things and make
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  Speaker 2: them better than where they were before the destruction. You understand,
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  Speaker 2: So don't worry about that part. I just want to
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  Speaker 2: say that God has free will too. I just want
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  Speaker 2: to let that settle in like God has free will too.
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  Speaker 2: I wrote that in my notes at the top of
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  Speaker 2: my lesson. Jesus, while living as a human being, could
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  Speaker 2: have chosen I'm talking about after he put on human flesh,
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  Speaker 2: as the prophets mentioned, right after he put on human flesh,
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  Speaker 2: he could have chosen to not go through with saving us.
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  Speaker 2: You realize when he was in the garden of Getsemite,
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  Speaker 2: under the load of our guilt, under the load of
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  Speaker 2: our shame, under the load of ours sin, that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: could have decided when when he was sweating as it
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  Speaker 2: were great drops of blood. He could have not said nevertheless,
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  Speaker 2: not as I will, as thou wilt, but as I.
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  Speaker 2: He could have said the opposite of what he actually said.
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  Speaker 2: I'm getting the words mixed up, but you know what
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  Speaker 2: happened there. And he could have decided even after that,
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  Speaker 2: when he was on the cross, he could have said,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I'm gonna call right now, twelve legions
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  Speaker 2: of angels and destroy all of these wicked people cry
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  Speaker 2: and crucify him. He could have said, these humans are
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  Speaker 2: going to get what they deserve, as opposed to him saying,
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  Speaker 2: oh God, please forgive them, for they know not what
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  Speaker 2: they do. He could have chosen that, and he also
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  Speaker 2: could have chosen unfortunately. No, I shouldn't say that. I
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  Speaker 2: take that back. Edit that out, y'all. If you're listening,
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  Speaker 2: edit that out of your brain. Forget the unfortunately part.
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  Speaker 2: He could have chosen to sin, Thankfully he didn't. He
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  Speaker 2: could have chosen to sin. I was trying. I was
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  Speaker 2: about to say, unfortunately, he could have chosen to sin.
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  Speaker 2: But if I put that word in there, unfortunately, then
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  Speaker 2: that means that I am questioning the method that God chose,
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  Speaker 2: like I am not questioning that. So fortunately, he could
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  Speaker 2: have chosen to sin, and I'm very thankful that he,
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  Speaker 2: even more fortunately chose not to sin. He chose to
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  Speaker 2: allow the Holy Ghost to lead in his life while
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  Speaker 2: he was living on planet Earth as a human. I
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  Speaker 2: need you to understand this was not a test, it
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  Speaker 2: was not an exhibition. Jesus could have chosen to sin,
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  Speaker 2: but thank god Jesus made the right choice and didn't.
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  Speaker 2: What's your choice?
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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,