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12 17 2025 The Anger of the Lord · 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 Wednesday, December seventeen,
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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 Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is the Anger of the Lord, The Anger
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  Speaker 2: of the Lord. Before we get into that, I'd like
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray and then get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: we thank you for this day and for the fact
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  Speaker 2: that you are pleased with your children. Please help us
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  Speaker 2: to live like we know this, Father, and I pray
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  Speaker 2: that we will be victorious over anything that displeases you.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus name, I pray Amen and Amen again. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: some people are living under the threat or fear that
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  Speaker 2: God is angry with you. I hope that's not you.
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  Speaker 2: I hope you're not fearful. I hope you're not concerned somehow.
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  Speaker 1: And and.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean, Like some people wake up
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  Speaker 2: waiting for the lightning bolts that used to be on
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  Speaker 2: those cartoons when we were young, Like trying to appease
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  Speaker 2: and angry God. Yeah, the false gods are are those
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  Speaker 2: that need to be appeased. But the fact is, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not saying that God is always excited. He's not always happy.
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  Speaker 2: There are times that he has to meet out retribution.
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  Speaker 2: We know this, but that is not his attitude. I
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  Speaker 2: remember him crying out to his people in the Book
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  Speaker 2: of ezekiel A couple of places, and he said, I
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  Speaker 2: don't take death, and I don't take I don't take
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  Speaker 2: pleasure in the death of him that dieth. Therefore turn
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  Speaker 2: yourselves and live. Ye, why will you die? O people
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  Speaker 2: of God? Like He's not looking for a way to
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  Speaker 2: hurt or to destroy anybody. So I'll just leave that
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  Speaker 2: right there before I go off too far on a tangent.
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  Speaker 2: So let me read. Let me just read here from
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  Speaker 2: the review in Harold. It's an article back in March twelfth,
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  Speaker 2: eighteen sixty seven James White. God's wrath is his just
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  Speaker 2: displeasure against sin. Now, I want you to be very
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  Speaker 2: clear about what I just said. His displeasure against what sin,
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  Speaker 2: never against righteousness. So really the antidote is to be
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  Speaker 2: covered in the righteousness of Christ. Right, how do we
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  Speaker 2: receive the covering? We submit our will to God? How
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  Speaker 2: do we submit our will to God? Well, He gives
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  Speaker 2: us the strength to will and to do of his
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  Speaker 2: good pleasure. So we're not concerned in the sense of
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  Speaker 2: fear that God will have a problem with us because
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  Speaker 2: we're covered in the righteousness of Christ. Let me continue,
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  Speaker 2: Let me continue the quote in Christ mercy and justice.
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  Speaker 2: You night and the believing soul stands secure. Let me
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  Speaker 2: read one more quote from the book The Desire of Ages,
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  Speaker 2: page twenty five. Christ was treated as we deserve, that
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  Speaker 2: we might be treated as he deserves. He bore the
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  Speaker 2: wrath of God against sin. So let me just say,
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  Speaker 2: since Jesus Christ already bore the wrath against sin, like
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  Speaker 2: he died under the burden of every human being who
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  Speaker 2: whatever lives sin, and it would be it would be
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  Speaker 2: assigned that righteousness that he paid for would be assigned
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  Speaker 2: only to people who surrender to him. So why would
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  Speaker 2: you have Jesus God forbid? Why would I have Jesus
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  Speaker 2: God forbid paying for for my sin and then saying no,
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  Speaker 2: I'll do it, I'll do it myself. That doesn't even
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  Speaker 2: make sense. But let me continue. Christ was treated as
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  Speaker 2: we deserve that we he might be treated as he deserves.
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  Speaker 2: He bore the wrath of God against sin. Through his sacrifice,
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  Speaker 2: justice is satisfied, and the sinner who believes is pardoned.
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  Speaker 2: Lesson Number one for today is God's wrath is a
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  Speaker 2: holy response of love against sin. The Bible Book of Psalms,
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  Speaker 2: chapter five and verse four reads, for thou art not
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  Speaker 2: a God that has a pleasure, has pleasure in wickedness.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't I just say that neither shall evil dwell with
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  Speaker 2: thee Okay? And so the word evil, the word for
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  Speaker 2: evil here means moral corruption, destructive wickedness. God's wrath is
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  Speaker 2: not uncontrolled anger. It's not road rage. It's not a
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  Speaker 2: drunken whomever coming home and slapping up their spouses. That
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  Speaker 2: wasn't in my notes. I just added that it is
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  Speaker 2: his holy opposition against every thing that destroys life. God's
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  Speaker 2: people had witnessed this truth at bel Pior, in the
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  Speaker 2: rebellion of Kora, and at the Fall of Achin. God
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  Speaker 2: stands against sin because sin stands against his creation. His
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  Speaker 2: anger flows from his holiness. His anger flows from his holiness.
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  Speaker 2: So the Bible does teach us that we can be
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  Speaker 2: angry without sinning, but that is a holy indignation. All
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  Speaker 2: of the rest of the anger has to be put away.
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  Speaker 2: If you read Paul's writings carefully, just the next few
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  Speaker 2: verses of the text that people cite all the time,
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  Speaker 2: Let's be angry and sin not. And then he tells you,
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  Speaker 2: but he said, don't let the sun go down on
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  Speaker 2: your wrath. And then put away all anger that does
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  Speaker 2: not fit this description. Okay, God stands against sin because
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  Speaker 2: it stands against his creation. His anger flows from holiness
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  Speaker 2: and not from instability. Our action is ask God to
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  Speaker 2: show you one sin or compromise that he wants to
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  Speaker 2: remove from your life, turn from it with seriousness and prayer.
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  Speaker 2: Today it's simple. You know, sin is combustible. Holiness bears
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  Speaker 2: bears strong under fire. Huh, Holiness is strong under fire.
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  Speaker 2: It refines. The fire then refines people who are surrendered
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  Speaker 2: to God. But the fire will burn up those who
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  Speaker 2: are not. I don't know how else to say it.
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  Speaker 2: Lesson number two, God's wrath shows the high cost of
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  Speaker 2: covenant faithfulness. From the Book of Joshua, chapter twenty three
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  Speaker 2: and verse sixteen, the Bible reads, when ye have transgressed
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  Speaker 2: the covenant of the Lord your God, then shall the
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  Speaker 2: anger of the Lord be kindled again, and ye shall
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  Speaker 2: perish quickly. And so that word for anger means the
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  Speaker 2: burning expression of justice. Did you know that justice in
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  Speaker 2: the Bible almost always means righteousness. God's justice is righteousness.
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  Speaker 2: So his anger is a burning expression of justice. That's
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  Speaker 2: what the word af means AF. That's for anger in
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  Speaker 2: that text God's people's blessings and warnings were equally covenantal.
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  Speaker 2: The same God who faithfully fulfilled his promises Joshua chapter
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  Speaker 2: twenty one and verse forty five, would faithfully fulfill his warnings.
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  Speaker 2: Divine justice makes the covenant meaningful and reveals that sin
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  Speaker 2: carries real consequences. The devil wants us to think that
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  Speaker 2: it's not a big deal. He wants us to think
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  Speaker 2: that God is on some kumbayas stuff like you know
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  Speaker 2: what I mean, Like, I'm sorry if in your culture
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  Speaker 2: you don't know what I mean. What is Kumbai. It's
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  Speaker 2: almost like God doesn't care. He's just like, as long
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  Speaker 2: as we're peaceful, we're good to go. And it's like, ah, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: But the standard of peace is coming through Christ by
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Ghost and yielding our will to God, and
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  Speaker 2: that experience that relationship makes our relationship peace full. And
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  Speaker 2: so yes, He's after peace. But the standard of the
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  Speaker 2: peace is righteousness. So our action this time is to
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  Speaker 2: reflect on the seriousness of covenantal faithfulness. Ask God for
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  Speaker 2: the strength to honor Him consistently in all of your choices, habits,
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  Speaker 2: and relationships. Make it a great day.
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  Speaker 1: Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we
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  Speaker 1: cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  Speaker 1: comes from the mouth of God. This has been your
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  Speaker 1: daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,