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02 15 2025 Free Will, Love, and Divine Providence · 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 Sabbath, February fifteen,
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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 with Lesson number eight, God's Love and Justice,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is free will love and
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  Speaker 2: Divine Providence. Free will Love and Divine Providence. We'll get
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  Speaker 2: into that in just a moment, but first I'd like
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  Speaker 2: to say welcome to you in Happy Sabbath, Happy Sabbath,
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  Speaker 2: us know where you are in the world at your
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  Speaker 2: daily portion dot com. This is one of the ways
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  Speaker 2: that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: we do thank you for this Sabbath morning and for
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  Speaker 2: the privilege we have to make a connection with you.
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  Speaker 2: Please help us never to sever our ties with you,
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  Speaker 2: never to walk away from you. Please, when trials come
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  Speaker 2: or things that we don't understand happen, please help us
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  Speaker 2: to redouble our connection with you so that we can
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  Speaker 2: live inside of your will. In Jesus's name, I pray
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  Speaker 2: Amen and a man again. Uh yeah. An elder once
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  Speaker 2: taught me that we should not blame God. We must
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  Speaker 2: not blame God for knowing everything. And so there are
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  Speaker 2: some things that he knows about the future. He knows
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  Speaker 2: about what will come. And people say, well, if you
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  Speaker 2: know that this terrible thing is going to happen, then
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  Speaker 2: why would you allow it to happen if it's terrible,
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  Speaker 2: And it's like, yes, but you know, we do live
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  Speaker 2: on a planet called Earth where we all have the
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  Speaker 2: ability and right and privilege to decide whatever way we
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  Speaker 2: want to go, you understand. And so in that reality,
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  Speaker 2: in that reality, there are things that people do to
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  Speaker 2: make things like bad for others, and you're like, well,
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  Speaker 2: why doesn't God prevent it? You see this, There's one
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  Speaker 2: thing about this world. It's not going to continue like this.
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  Speaker 2: There's another thing about God. Yes, he's in control, but
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  Speaker 2: he is allowing us to make our own decisions. And
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  Speaker 2: if God forbid we are impacted negatively by others' decisions,
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  Speaker 2: if it's contrary to God's will, and we are living
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  Speaker 2: inside of God's will, he is going to more than
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  Speaker 2: restore whatever we have lost, whatever pain that people suffer
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  Speaker 2: as a result, whatever evil that we suffer at the
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  Speaker 2: hands of some circumstance or somebody. God is going to
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  Speaker 2: more than restore. Remember he's the one that created all things.
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  Speaker 2: He created us, and so we see so many examples
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  Speaker 2: of this. But I just don't want to get ahead
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  Speaker 2: of myself. Let me just say that Jesus is almost here.
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  Speaker 2: He's almost here. It's almost time for the Lord to come.
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  Speaker 2: The hymn writer pen I'm going to read from John
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  Speaker 2: chapter sixteen and verse thirty three. Remember, God is going
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  Speaker 2: to restore all things, in fact, to do even better
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  Speaker 2: than the way that it was. But the Bible reads
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  Speaker 2: here in verse thirty three, these things have I spoken
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  Speaker 2: to you that in me you may have peace? Yes,
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  Speaker 2: even in the midst of storms. I think there is
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  Speaker 2: a song that says that He's a shelter in the
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  Speaker 2: time of storm. I think that he actually demonstrated that
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  Speaker 2: reality as he lived on planet earths when his disciples
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  Speaker 2: were losing their mind because they thought that the storm
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  Speaker 2: was going to destroy them and that their boat was
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  Speaker 2: going to sink and they would all die. And Jesus
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  Speaker 2: is sleeping at the back of this tiny little fishing boat,
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  Speaker 2: and they cry out, Master, camest thou not that we
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  Speaker 2: perish in Jesus. In Jesus, because he knows that he
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  Speaker 2: in this case it is sovereign, because he knows that
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  Speaker 2: in this case he knows what is and is not
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  Speaker 2: going to happen, because he knows that he has authority
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  Speaker 2: even over nature. He gets up, he completely quiets the storm.
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  Speaker 2: I know that we use poetic language in the King
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  Speaker 2: James version piece be Still. He told the storm to
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  Speaker 2: shut up, like he told the storm to hold its peace.
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  Speaker 2: It had to stop because Jesus commanded it to stop,
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  Speaker 2: and then he chided his children and said, why why
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  Speaker 2: did you have problems?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: Why was your faith so weak? Why were you discouraged?
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  Speaker 2: Why were you desponding? Why were you fearful? You see,
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  Speaker 2: when Jesus is with you, you have nothing to fear.
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  Speaker 2: You have nothing to fear. When Jesus is with you,
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  Speaker 2: you have nothing to fear. And it's as here that
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  Speaker 2: in Me, Jesus speaking, you may have peace even if
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  Speaker 2: you get that dreaded diagnosis, even if a loved one
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  Speaker 2: of yours dies and people try to rush you through
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  Speaker 2: your grieving process. But God never intended that we should
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  Speaker 2: ever be separated. And sometimes we will miss our loved ones.
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  Speaker 2: We will want to hear their voices, We will want
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  Speaker 2: to smell the perfume or soap that they normally use.
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  Speaker 2: We will want to experience them in the ways that
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  Speaker 2: we for the years that we had together experienced them.
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  Speaker 2: But right now we are separated. God never intended for
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  Speaker 2: us to be separated by death. But alas in these
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  Speaker 2: moments we do have to deal with that. These are
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  Speaker 2: things with which we must condemn, contend. But he said
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  Speaker 2: that in me you will have peace. But in the
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  Speaker 2: world you will have tribulation. Talking about this world as
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  Speaker 2: it is today and as it was Jesus's day. But
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  Speaker 2: that's a conjunction. It negates what came before. But be
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  Speaker 2: of good cheer. How can I be of good cheer? Jesus, Ah,
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  Speaker 2: he said, be of good cheer? Why? Because I have
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  Speaker 2: overcome the world. Jesus overcame the world. He overcame the devil,
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  Speaker 2: lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, pride of life,
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  Speaker 2: and all the consequences and outcomes that come as a
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  Speaker 2: result of this. He overcame that. He overcame all of
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  Speaker 2: the poverty, Ah, because for your sake he became poor
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  Speaker 2: so that you could be rich. He overcame oppression and depression.
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  Speaker 2: He overcame all despondency, He overcame all abuse. He overcame
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  Speaker 2: those situations that you feel like will never amend. He
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  Speaker 2: overcame all of that, and one day we're going to
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  Speaker 2: experience the benefit. Can we agree that in this world
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  Speaker 2: we have tribulations, That's what the text says. Aren't you
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  Speaker 2: happy that the divine peacemaker overcame and conquered the evil
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  Speaker 2: in this world? You see when Jesus, when Jesus fulfilled
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  Speaker 2: his promise. He said, I lay down my life that
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  Speaker 2: I may take it again. I have this commandment of
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  Speaker 2: my father. When he did that and took his life back,
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  Speaker 2: after he rested in the tomb until the Sunday morning,
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  Speaker 2: when he took his life back. When he took his
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  Speaker 2: life back, you realize what he received. The Bible writer
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  Speaker 2: says that he received with the keys of hell and
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  Speaker 2: the grave and death. And one day he's going to
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  Speaker 2: throw all of that and fill in every negative in
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  Speaker 2: every negative in the blank, fill in the blank with
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  Speaker 2: every negative. He's going to throw all of that into
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  Speaker 2: the lake of fire at the appropriate time. Very soon
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  Speaker 2: we're going to see that Jesus will come like he promised.
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  Speaker 2: He said, let not your heart be troubled. You believe
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  Speaker 2: in God, believe also in me. This is Jesus speaking
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  Speaker 2: in my father's house. There are many mansions. If it
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  Speaker 2: were not so, I would have told you I go
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  Speaker 2: to prepare a place for you. And if I go
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  Speaker 2: and prepare a place for you, I will not might
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  Speaker 2: I will. I shall come again and receive you unto myself.
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  Speaker 2: That where I am there ye may be also free
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  Speaker 2: will love and divine Providence. Don't worry about the details,
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  Speaker 2: just trust God and he'll be here.
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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,