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01 20 2025 Gut-Wrenching Love · 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 Monday, January
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  Speaker 2: twenty 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. Our caption for today
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  Speaker 2: is gut wrenching Love. Gut wrenching Love. We'll get into
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  Speaker 2: that in just a moment, but first I like to
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  Speaker 2: say welcome to you and ask you to please go
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  Speaker 2: and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we
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  Speaker 2: will get underway. Bather and Heaven, thank you for giving
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  Speaker 2: us this new day and for the opportunity to experience
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  Speaker 2: your love in a special and new way. Father, Please
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  Speaker 2: fill us with your holy spirit and help us to
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  Speaker 2: be faith full to you in every detail. In Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and Amen again, gut wrenching love. Woh yes,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to us say much here Before we
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  Speaker 2: read the text. Let's go ahead into Hosea chapter eleven.
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  Speaker 2: Hoseah chapter eleven, and I will read beginning at verse
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  Speaker 2: one Hosea chapter eleven, and I will read beginning at
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  Speaker 2: verse one, and the Bible reads, when Israel was a
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  Speaker 2: young man, I loved him like a son, and I
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  Speaker 2: summoned my son out of Egypt but the more I
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  Speaker 2: summoned them, the farther they departed from me. Can you
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  Speaker 2: imagine when God is delivering his people from captivity. They
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  Speaker 2: came from a time of prosperity when Joseph was still
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  Speaker 2: around and his influence was still evident and prevalent in Egypt. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: and then at some point there was a pharaoh who
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  Speaker 2: was paranoid. Really, that's how I see it, who said,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, I don't know Joseph, but these people,
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  Speaker 2: they're multiplying. They're going to get out of hand, and
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  Speaker 2: they are going to revolt against me. So what we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna do is enslave them. And then this started years
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  Speaker 2: in years and years of oppression and slavery, and the
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  Speaker 2: Bible says that God is now delivering his people according
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  Speaker 2: to Exodus chapter I think it's three. Sometimes I mix
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  Speaker 2: up the two chapters three or six, where God says,
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  Speaker 2: I heard the groanings of my people, and now I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to deliver them. I am going to introduce to you,
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  Speaker 2: Moses myself by a name that I've not introduced myself
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  Speaker 2: to any of the patriarchs, to Abraham, to Isaac, or
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  Speaker 2: to Jacob. It is the name Yahweh or Jehovah, blessed
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  Speaker 2: be his name. I'm going to introduce myself in a
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  Speaker 2: way that you will know. I self exist, and I'm eternal, yes,
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  Speaker 2: but I am all powerful. Yes, but I can still
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  Speaker 2: hear your cries in the darkness. I am massively powerful,
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  Speaker 2: and yet I can still come close to you and
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  Speaker 2: hear when you need me. Okay. And so now God
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  Speaker 2: is delivering his people. And the more he delivers his people,
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  Speaker 2: the more they revolt, the more they want to go
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  Speaker 2: back into slavery. The more he gives you victory over
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  Speaker 2: substances you used to get drunk, and he is giving
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  Speaker 2: you the ability and the power to walk away. You've
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  Speaker 2: been cleaned for one week, two weeks, three weeks, but
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  Speaker 2: now you're going back into that sin. He's giving you
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  Speaker 2: victory over your anger management challenges. And the more that
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  Speaker 2: you are being delivered is the more you decide, you
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  Speaker 2: know what, forget this. This person should never have pushed
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  Speaker 2: my buttons in this way. I could go down through
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  Speaker 2: the list, but you see where we're going with this.
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  Speaker 2: They sacrifice. The Bible continues in verse two to the
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  Speaker 2: bail idols and burn incense to images. Yet it was
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  Speaker 2: I who let e frim. I took them by the arm,
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  Speaker 2: but they did not acknowledge that I had healed them.
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  Speaker 2: You see, God has positioned us to be delivered from
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  Speaker 2: any besetting sin, that thing that you promised God that
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  Speaker 2: if you would, he would deliver you from. Huh, if
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  Speaker 2: he would deliver you from then you promised that you would,
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  Speaker 2: you would follow him with all that you have and
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  Speaker 2: all that you are. And then when he he does,
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  Speaker 2: and you forget that, you see verse four. I drew
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  Speaker 2: them with leather cords, with straps of hide. I lifted
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  Speaker 2: the yoke from their neck and gently fed them. They
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  Speaker 2: will return to Egypt. The Syria will rule over them
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  Speaker 2: because they refuse to repent. God is just saying, just
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  Speaker 2: give everything to me. Turn away from your sins. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to deliver you from the burden of the guilt.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to deliver you from the yoke that causes
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  Speaker 2: you to have to do those things. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: deliver you, give you the ability to say no to
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  Speaker 2: the enemy. And yet sometimes God's people, sometimes God's people
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  Speaker 2: turned back into sin. Verse six. A sword will flash
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  Speaker 2: into their cities. I will destroy the bars of the
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  Speaker 2: city of their gates, and I will devour them in
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  Speaker 2: their fortresses. My people are obsessed with turning away from me.
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  Speaker 2: They called to Bao. What kinds of relationships are you
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  Speaker 2: calling to? Brothers and sisters? If any, I mean you
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  Speaker 2: may not be in this story here, but for those
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  Speaker 2: who do, what are you calling unto? Are you saying
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  Speaker 2: we don't know where God is, Please build us a
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  Speaker 2: golden calf? Or are you saying you know what? Like
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  Speaker 2: King Saul, he said, God isn't answering my prayer, So
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to go to a witch. You're going to
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  Speaker 2: palm readers, brothers and sisters, I hope not. How you
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  Speaker 2: go into the tarot cards, you go into astrology, you
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  Speaker 2: go into some of these other situations that are leading
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  Speaker 2: away from God. Relics? Are you? I hope not? But
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  Speaker 2: today is your day? Like you can turn to God
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  Speaker 2: today if you will yield your will to him. My
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  Speaker 2: people are obsessed with turning away from me. They go
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  Speaker 2: to bail Ah, but he will never exalt them. How
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  Speaker 2: can I give you up, o Ephraim? How can I
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  Speaker 2: surrender you, oh Israel? How can I treat you like Adma?
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  Speaker 2: How can I make you like Ziboyem, I have had
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  Speaker 2: a change of heart. You see, all my tender compassions
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  Speaker 2: are aroused. You see, God has a way of saying,
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  Speaker 2: you know what I feel away because my people have
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  Speaker 2: turned away from me. I want to chide them, and
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  Speaker 2: I indeed will. I want to destroy them. But now
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  Speaker 2: I'm having second thoughts. I love you with everlasting love,
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  Speaker 2: and therefore with loving kindness I have drawn you verse nine.
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  Speaker 2: I cannot carry out my fierce anger. I cannot totally
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  Speaker 2: destroy Ephriom because I am God and not man. Holy.
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  Speaker 2: When among you, I will not come in wrath. This
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  Speaker 2: is a very interesting discussion to me, because God is
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  Speaker 2: completely just blessed be his name. He is righteous one
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  Speaker 2: hundred percent of the time in his presence. He cannot
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  Speaker 2: tolerate wickedness because wickedness becomes flammable in his presence. It
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  Speaker 2: gets destroyed in his presence if he does not mix
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  Speaker 2: his presence with mercy. The essence of who God is
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  Speaker 2: is destructive to evil. And yet, and yet sometimes we
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  Speaker 2: stumble and bumble into God's presence with evil and unconfessed sin.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes we go into his presence beating our chest like
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  Speaker 2: King Kong, say I'm here, I'm here, I'm here, and
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  Speaker 2: don't really care that God is holy, don't even care
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  Speaker 2: that He has been merciful to us, and then flaunt
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  Speaker 2: our sin in his face. And he's saying, but why
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  Speaker 2: will you die, my people? Why turn yourselves and live?
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  Speaker 2: And so God's love is gut wrenching. Can you imagine
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  Speaker 2: how he feels when he sees us going down the
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  Speaker 2: wrong path? I wish I had the time, but let
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  Speaker 2: me just say, even though God is merciful, even though
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  Speaker 2: he is kind, Please, brothers and sisters, let today be
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  Speaker 2: the day that you stop taking God for granted, He
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  Speaker 2: has gut wrenching love for you. 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,