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03 13 2025 The Vindication of God’s Name · 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. It's
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  Speaker 2: March thirteen, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle
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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, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is the vindication of God's names, of God's Name.
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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: dot com. This is one of the ways that we
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  Speaker 2: continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
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  Speaker 2: and then we will get underway. Father, we do thank
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  Speaker 2: you for giving us this new day. Thank you for
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  Speaker 2: loving us. Thank you for making yourself so clear to
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  Speaker 2: us that we would have to reject you, to miss
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  Speaker 2: the message of love and of hope that you give us. Father,
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  Speaker 2: Please help us to become now your ambassador, ambassadors in
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  Speaker 2: Jesus name, I pray, Amen and amen again the vindication
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  Speaker 2: of God's name. Okay, So we're going to begin. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to begin by reading from the Bible Book of Romans, Romans,
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  Speaker 2: chapter three, verses four, and well, I'll read the first
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  Speaker 2: four verses, okay, Okay, So the Bible reads, therefore, what
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  Speaker 2: advantage does the Jew have or what is the value
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  Speaker 2: of circumcision? Of course, that we're jumping like headlong into
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  Speaker 2: a conversation that's already happening, okay, And so let's just
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  Speaker 2: use the term Jew in this case as the original
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  Speaker 2: connected people of God in the context of their discussion, okay,
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  Speaker 2: or what value the circumcision? Actually, there are many advantaged advantages.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles
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  Speaker 2: of God. What then, if some did not believe? Does
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  Speaker 2: their unbelief nullify the faithfulness of God? Absolutely not. Let
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  Speaker 2: God be proven true and every human being show up
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  Speaker 2: as a liar, just as it is written, so that
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  Speaker 2: you will be justified in your words and will prevail
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  Speaker 2: when you are judged. I'll come back to that in
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  Speaker 2: just a second. Let's read now from Isaiah chapter five,
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  Speaker 2: verses three and four. Okay, And so the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: So now, residents of Jerusalem, people of Judah, you decide
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  Speaker 2: now between me and my vineyard, what more can I
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  Speaker 2: do for you? Or what could I have done for
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  Speaker 2: my vineyard beyond what I have already done. When I
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  Speaker 2: waited for it to produce edible grapes, why did it
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  Speaker 2: produce sour grapes instead. We talked about that a little
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  Speaker 2: bit the other day. So please scroll back two days
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  Speaker 2: and get the fullness of that. And so here the
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  Speaker 2: Bible is vindicating the character of God in a few ways.
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  Speaker 2: Number One, God actually invites examination of his actions. And
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  Speaker 2: I don't want us to go too far like God
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  Speaker 2: is holy, he's just, He's good. One hundred percent of
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  Speaker 2: the time. But he is inviting us into the conversation
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  Speaker 2: and saying, what more could I do to save my people? Okay?
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  Speaker 2: Number two, Human failure does not nullify God's faithfulness. You see,
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  Speaker 2: the thing about God is that he doesn't operate like
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  Speaker 2: humans do. He is over and above all things, blessed
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  Speaker 2: be his name, And so sometimes people make it seem
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  Speaker 2: as if God is handcuffed, like he is not able
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  Speaker 2: to accomplish his will. The fact is, though, that there
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  Speaker 2: are people that turn their backs on him. There are
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  Speaker 2: people who have been called by his name, who have
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  Speaker 2: decided that they don't want to live based on the
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  Speaker 2: principles of his name. Talking about in twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about God forbid, I hope not some people
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  Speaker 2: that may be listening to me and watching. Okay, and
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  Speaker 2: yesterday I gave a quick blueprint about how to turn
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  Speaker 2: toward God in a way from our sinfulness. So if
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  Speaker 2: that's you, then God is speaking to you. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: taking it for granted. Like sometimes God is calling the
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  Speaker 2: people right to a platform, to a radio program, to
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  Speaker 2: a podcast, onto social media or YouTube or something and
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  Speaker 2: saying I want you to hear this message because I'm
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  Speaker 2: calling you. I'm calling you into right relationship with me.
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  Speaker 2: And so even still, human failure does not nullify God's faithfulness.
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  Speaker 2: Number three, God's character stands true despite human unbelief. You
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  Speaker 2: don't have to believe something for it to be true.
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  Speaker 2: God is faithful. You don't have to believe it. I
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  Speaker 2: believe it. If you believe that God is faithful, go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and type it in the chat. I believe it.
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  Speaker 2: I know and believe that God is holy at one
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  Speaker 2: hundred percent of the time. But just because some humans
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  Speaker 2: don't believe that doesn't mean that it's not true. God's
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  Speaker 2: character stands despite human unbelief. Number four. God will be
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  Speaker 2: justified in his words and actions. You see in due season, Ah,
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  Speaker 2: God is going to reveal all things. But in the meantime,
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  Speaker 2: we have the privilege of making decisions to serve him
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  Speaker 2: based on what He has already revealed. You see, we
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  Speaker 2: have the privilege of seeing God so loving us that
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  Speaker 2: he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in
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  Speaker 2: him would not perish but have everlasting life. It is
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  Speaker 2: our privilege to believe him. It is our privilege to
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  Speaker 2: embrace the love that he has had for us in
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  Speaker 2: that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for the ungodly.
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  Speaker 2: We can do this in the meantime, but in the end,
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  Speaker 2: when people are still trying to put God on trial,
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  Speaker 2: still trying to say why do good things happen to
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  Speaker 2: bad people? Why do bad things happen to good people?
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  Speaker 2: God is saying that his words will be justified, and
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  Speaker 2: every being in the universe. Notice I did not just
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  Speaker 2: say human beings, even the devil and his angels. Every
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  Speaker 2: being in the universe will say just and true are
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  Speaker 2: his ways at the appropriate time. Number five and final,
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  Speaker 2: he will prevail. He will prevail. God will prevail. The
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  Speaker 2: question is does he prevail in your life today? Does
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  Speaker 2: He prevail in your life today? I'm thankful that God
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  Speaker 2: is so good and you want to say, well, well,
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  Speaker 2: how good is he? Dave? He is so good that
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  Speaker 2: He is giving all of us an opportunity just about
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  Speaker 2: eight minutes into our broadcast to be a manifestation of
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  Speaker 2: His goodness. So people, when they see us, they see
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  Speaker 2: that God is powerful enough to transform broken sinners into
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  Speaker 2: holy saints. In Revelation chapter fifteen and verse three, the
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  Speaker 2: Bible reads and they sing God's people in the end analysis,
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  Speaker 2: they will sing the song of Moses, the Servant of God,
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  Speaker 2: and the song of the Lamb, saying, what's the song,
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  Speaker 2: Brother John. Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God, Almighty,
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  Speaker 2: Just and true are thy ways, Thou King of Saints.
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  Speaker 2: I'm grateful. I'm grateful, and I want to read also
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  Speaker 2: from Revelation chapter nineteen. Let me see how much I
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  Speaker 2: can get out before we come to a swift close,
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  Speaker 2: beginning at verse one. And after these things, I heard
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  Speaker 2: a great voice of much people in saying, ah Lulujah,
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  Speaker 2: salvation and glory and honor and power unto the Lord,
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  Speaker 2: our God. And for true and righteous are his judgments.
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  Speaker 2: For he hath judged the great whore, that is, the
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  Speaker 2: people who masqueraded as His people but are not, which
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  Speaker 2: did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and hath avenged
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  Speaker 2: the blood of his servants at her hand. And they
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  Speaker 2: say again Hallelujah, and the smoke of rose up forever
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  Speaker 2: and ever. And then the Bible continues with more praise
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  Speaker 2: and more worship in the scene in verse six and final.
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  Speaker 2: And I heard, as it were, the voice of a
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  Speaker 2: great multitude, as the voice of many waters, as the
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  Speaker 2: voice of mighty thundering saying Hallelujah for the Lord God,
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  Speaker 2: omnipotent reigneth God's character.
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  Speaker 1: Will be Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember
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  Speaker 1: we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word
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  Speaker 1: that comes from the mouth of God. This has been
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  Speaker 1: your daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a
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  Speaker 1: great day. Yeah,