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08 28 2025 Vengeance · 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, August
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  Speaker 2: twenty eight, 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
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  Speaker 2: day and today is no exception. We are continuing in
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  Speaker 2: our Lesson study series through the Book of Exodus, and
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today is vengeance. Uh oh, vengeance. Before
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  Speaker 2: we get into the that, I'd like to say welcome
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  Speaker 2: to you and ask you to go over to your
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  Speaker 2: pick up the Your Daily Portion Life Application Guide and
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion dot Com. This is one of the
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  Speaker 2: ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's
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  Speaker 2: go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: We thank you, thank you for giving us this day
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  Speaker 2: and giving us what your desires for our lives is are. Father,
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  Speaker 2: Please give us the fullness of your Holy Spirit so
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  Speaker 2: we can actually live this. We want to live it. Lord,
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  Speaker 2: not talk about it, not act like we're philosophers about it.
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  Speaker 2: We want to live it. Please help us in Jesus name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again. It's no joke out
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  Speaker 2: here these days because people listen, even high ranking officials
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  Speaker 2: these days are looking for ways to get back at others.
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  Speaker 2: Like it seems. It seems like it's getting worse and
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  Speaker 2: worse and worse, like Pharaoh. The spirit of Pharaoh is
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  Speaker 2: in the air where people are just ready to get
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  Speaker 2: back at people. The Bible teaches us in Romans chapter
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  Speaker 2: twelve and verse nineteen, and of course Paul borrowed this
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  Speaker 2: from the Old Testament. Beloved, never avenge yourselves, Never avenge yourselves,
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  Speaker 2: but leave it to the wrath of God. For it
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  Speaker 2: is written vengeance is mine. I will repay, says the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Before we go through the teaching, the heavy teaching on this,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like to go into our life application guide. We've
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  Speaker 2: not done it together recently. Hopefully you're still using it
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  Speaker 2: in your churches, you're using it in your personal study
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  Speaker 2: to go into the professional relationships the professional application section. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and so we're using the acronym when it's a framework
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  Speaker 2: for our professional application for the w What is important now?
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  Speaker 2: Leadership means guiding others without using your authority to settle
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  Speaker 2: personal scores. I hope somebody is listening today. If you
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  Speaker 2: are a leader, you know it doesn't really even mean
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  Speaker 2: you have to be a leader for this to apply,
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  Speaker 2: no matter what your position is. But if, especially if
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  Speaker 2: you are a leader, don't use your position to get
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  Speaker 2: back at people. Don't do that. I internalize the insight.
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  Speaker 2: Your role as a leader is not to emotionally react,
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  Speaker 2: but to wisely administer fairness while trusting God to address
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  Speaker 2: hidden matters of the heart. Somebody's listening, and then what
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  Speaker 2: is my next best move? Audit your leadership decisions. If
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  Speaker 2: any action was motivated by personal offense rather than principle,
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  Speaker 2: course correct and align with integrity. This is where really
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  Speaker 2: the rubber meets the road. In the other three categories
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  Speaker 2: as well. And so God wants us to see his
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  Speaker 2: truth as something we have the privilege of living. Somebody
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  Speaker 2: gets under your skin that has nothing to do with
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  Speaker 2: how you treat them. Next, somebody has a habit of
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  Speaker 2: doing things that are offensive to you. That has nothing
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  Speaker 2: to do with whether you're gonna get back at them
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  Speaker 2: or not. If they deserve to be condemned or somehow
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  Speaker 2: corrected in a way that is beyond the pale of
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  Speaker 2: human responsibility. Let God do his job and you do yours.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had the time. I just literally don't.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody's getting it, and so in versus well, we already
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  Speaker 2: read that verse. Let's go to the historical context. In
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  Speaker 2: verse thirty five of Deuteronomy, chapter thirty two, Paul quotes
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  Speaker 2: directly from there, reminding the early believers, many of whom
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  Speaker 2: were persecuted. You have to think about it. They were persecuted,
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  Speaker 2: just like in Martin Luther King Junior's time in the
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  Speaker 2: nineteen fifties and sixties. Now as he's preaching that sermon
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  Speaker 2: love your enemy, loving your enemies, he's having to actually
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  Speaker 2: live that. I'm talking about stuff I can't even say
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  Speaker 2: in social media or or on what do you call
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  Speaker 2: it YouTube? Because they'll do something on the channel. But
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  Speaker 2: the things that were happening, he had to still say,
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  Speaker 2: I have the capacity that is greater. My capacity to
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  Speaker 2: love is greater than my enemy's capacity to hate. Can
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  Speaker 2: you imagine? So the believers, the early believers in the
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  Speaker 2: first century, were being persecuted. They were not to take
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  Speaker 2: justice into their own hands. This message reflects both a
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  Speaker 2: command avenge not yourselves and a promise. How many people
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  Speaker 2: missed the promise? The ones who like to fight probably
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  Speaker 2: missed the promise. Yes, the promise is that I God
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  Speaker 2: speaking will repay. Paul is not denying the reality of justice.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm not asking y'all to lay down and act
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  Speaker 2: like stuff is not happening. I'm not about that lay
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  Speaker 2: down life. I'm about to stand down life like when
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  Speaker 2: God says to ease back and let him deal with it,
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  Speaker 2: then I'll deal with it. I'll let him deal with it.
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  Speaker 2: And if there's a giant in the ravine who's being
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  Speaker 2: disrespectful where the honor of God is concerned, that we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna get those five smooth stones, and that stone is
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  Speaker 2: gonna hit its target the biblical way. But when God
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  Speaker 2: says he will deal with it, get out of his way.
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  Speaker 2: He's affirming that only God can carry out perfect justice
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  Speaker 2: because only God sees the entire truth, the motive, and
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  Speaker 2: the impact. And so from the book The Thoughts of
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  Speaker 2: Thoughts from the amount of Blessing, we read we are
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  Speaker 2: not to set ourselves up as judges. Our work is
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  Speaker 2: to bless others and lead them to Christ. So much
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  Speaker 2: more to say, so little time. And so let's make
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  Speaker 2: some more application.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Let this application be vengeance's mind. I will repay when
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  Speaker 2: you are wronged. Your job is not to punish. Your
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  Speaker 2: job is to forgive. Set boundaries, and let God be
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  Speaker 2: the judge. And let me just add a caveat here.
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  Speaker 2: God has given has given guidance through the through Paul,
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  Speaker 2: that the systems of law and justice are there. They
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  Speaker 2: are there to correct those who need to be judged.
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  Speaker 2: That's why law enforcement exists. That's why our systems of
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  Speaker 2: laws and justice exist, and those should be in God's hands. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: number two, avoid bitterness. Avoid bitterness and embrace mercy. Love
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  Speaker 2: your enemies, pray for them. This doesn't mean pretending evil
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  Speaker 2: didn't happen. We're not covering our eyes and saying peekaboo,
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  Speaker 2: as if we poof vanished, we can still see each other.
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  Speaker 2: We know what the reality is. It means choosing mercy
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  Speaker 2: instead of letting hate in fact I use that word advisedly,
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  Speaker 2: instead of allowing hatred to in fact our souls. And
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  Speaker 2: then finally, trust God with the reward of faithfulness. Bible says,
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  Speaker 2: your father will reward you. Your Father will reward you.
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  Speaker 2: You don't need applause, and you don't need to pay.
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  Speaker 2: You don't need paid back. Your quiet obedience is seen
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  Speaker 2: by God. So you know, there's some people who say
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  Speaker 2: try You know, I don't even really want to say it.
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  Speaker 2: It's so for me, it's vile. People will say, try Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: not me, meaning like I'm not saved enough not to
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  Speaker 2: bust back or show retribution. That is so vile, Like,
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  Speaker 2: don't say that, like that. Allow Jesus to become a
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  Speaker 2: part of our lives so that we live like he lived.
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  Speaker 2: And then let that be your peace. Let that be
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  Speaker 2: your peace. God is always watching. He'll deal with wickedness
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  Speaker 2: at the appropriate time and in his way. 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,