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01 29 2025 God Does Not Afflict Willingly · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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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 Wednesday, January
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  Speaker 2: twenty nine, 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: 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 God does not afflict willingly. God does
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  Speaker 2: not afflict willingly. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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  Speaker 2: you with every everything that we have and everything that
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  Speaker 2: we are, and help us to live according to your truth.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, I pray a man and a man again.
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  Speaker 2: God does not afflict willingly. Yeah that's a big deal,
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  Speaker 2: because there are some people who feel like God is
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  Speaker 2: an angry God, like they are running away from lightning bolts,
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  Speaker 2: They're running away from what they would consider to be
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  Speaker 2: the tyrant in the sky. But God has no desire
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  Speaker 2: to destroy any human being. The Bible says that God
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  Speaker 2: does not take pleasure in the death of those who die,
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  Speaker 2: and he's talking about especially those who are dying under judgment.
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  Speaker 2: He's saying, so therefore turn yourselves and live. Of course
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  Speaker 2: he was speaking to some specific people, but that still
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  Speaker 2: is the character of God. No pleasure. Hell Fire was
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  Speaker 2: created for the devil and his angels. So at the
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  Speaker 2: appropriate time, God is going to destroy the devil and
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  Speaker 2: his angels. And unfortunately, people who just literally refuse to
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  Speaker 2: accept love. Whose you who are are more interested in
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  Speaker 2: fear and hatred than love and God. Yes, so let's
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  Speaker 2: go to the Bible Book of Ezra. I know there's
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  Speaker 2: some people who've not seen the Book of Ezra. In
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  Speaker 2: Forever Ezra, chapter five, and we'll read verse twelve. We
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  Speaker 2: did a lesson study several quarters ago where we focused
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  Speaker 2: in Ezra and Nehemiah. Here we go verse twelve. But
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  Speaker 2: after that, our fathers had provoked the God of Heaven
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  Speaker 2: unto wrath. You see God can be provoked, provoked the
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  Speaker 2: God of Heaven unto wrath. He gave them into the
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  Speaker 2: hand of Nebek Kidnezzar, the king of bath Babylon, the
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  Speaker 2: child Dion, who destroyed this house and carried the people
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  Speaker 2: away into Babylon. And so even when God, because he
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  Speaker 2: was provoked by his own people to wrath, they chose
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  Speaker 2: to forget about all of the times that he gave
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  Speaker 2: them a way to amend their ways, forget all of
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  Speaker 2: the chances that He had given them to do his
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  Speaker 2: will when it was easier to do it, if you
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  Speaker 2: want to say, if there's such a thing as easier, ah,
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  Speaker 2: and they needed some additional help, let's call it those individuals.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, his people now are in Babylonian captivity, as
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  Speaker 2: we as we would say. But you know, even as
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  Speaker 2: he gave them over into Babylonian captivity, he put bounds
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  Speaker 2: on what the Babylonians could do. There were some terrible
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  Speaker 2: things that happened while they were in captivity, but he
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  Speaker 2: even then gave bounds to or boundaries to the Babylonians.
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  Speaker 2: To say, this far and no farther, Let's go to
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  Speaker 2: Jeremiah chapter fifty one. Jeremiah chapter fifty one, and then
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  Speaker 2: and then will make some more sense of this. And
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  Speaker 2: we'll read beginning at verse twenty four, and the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: and I will render unto Babylon to all. I will
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  Speaker 2: render unto Babylon and all of the inhabitant inhabitants of Chaldea,
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  Speaker 2: all their evil that they have done in Zion in
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  Speaker 2: your sight, set the Lord. Okay, let me read it
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  Speaker 2: in another translation. But I will repay Babylon and all
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  Speaker 2: who live in Babylonia for all the wicked things they
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  Speaker 2: did unto Zion right before the eyes of you, Judean,
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  Speaker 2: says the Lord. Verse twenty five. The Lord says, beware,
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  Speaker 2: I oppose you, Babylon. You are like a destructive mountain
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  Speaker 2: that destroys all the earth. I will unleash my power
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  Speaker 2: against you. I will roll you off the cliffs and
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  Speaker 2: make you like a burned out mountain. So the truth
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  Speaker 2: is that sometimes when God would allow would allow people
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  Speaker 2: to chastise God's people, that they would go too far,
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  Speaker 2: that they would go too far. As a parent, do
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  Speaker 2: you go too far when you chastise your child? And
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  Speaker 2: God is saying, okay, there is a way that you
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  Speaker 2: have to correct. There is a way that you can chastise.
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  Speaker 2: But sometimes humans go too far. When you are in
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  Speaker 2: law enforcement, when you are in the government, wherever you
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  Speaker 2: happen to be in the world, do you overstep or
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  Speaker 2: overreach the bounds that God has set forth, Paul talks
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  Speaker 2: about how these things should function. Have we gone too
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  Speaker 2: far in how we meet out justice? That's a question.
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  Speaker 2: But we see that since God is watching and he
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  Speaker 2: is not willing to owv extent or to over afflict,
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  Speaker 2: his goal is to if he has to chastise, his
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  Speaker 2: goal is to bring people back into right relationship with him.
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  Speaker 2: We're not talking about judgment at the end of time
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  Speaker 2: as yet. We're talking about there are times that God
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  Speaker 2: is bringing people back into line. But sometimes those who
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  Speaker 2: are used by God go too far, and this is
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  Speaker 2: what happened. And so of course now Babylon has a
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  Speaker 2: problem with God because because of course they had gone
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  Speaker 2: too far. And so we're going into our Companion Guide
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  Speaker 2: to page Let's go to page seventy nine, seventeen nine
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  Speaker 2: and eighty, and we're going to focus our attention here
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  Speaker 2: on the relationship one because as I said to those
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  Speaker 2: who don't have the guide, we have four different ways
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  Speaker 2: to apply, and we're going to go with relationships using
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  Speaker 2: the acronym win wil. What is important now under relationship development,
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  Speaker 2: God's reluctance to bring judgment shows his desire for people
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  Speaker 2: to change and to reconcile. This should guide us in
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  Speaker 2: how we handle conflicts and disappointments in our relationships. So,
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  Speaker 2: if you're building a relationship and there are times that
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  Speaker 2: things get very difficult or or worse, then looking at
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  Speaker 2: the model that God has shown us in the passages
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  Speaker 2: we just read and others, we are like, okay, okay, okay.
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  Speaker 2: God's goal is to reconcile. What is our goal? Is
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  Speaker 2: it to pay somebody back? Is it is it to
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  Speaker 2: do something more? Well? You be the judge. I internalize
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  Speaker 2: the insight. Think about a strained relationship in your life.
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  Speaker 2: Please don't type it in the chat, not today. Think
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  Speaker 2: about it. Is it your husband? Is it your husband
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  Speaker 2: or wife? Is it with your adult children? Is it
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  Speaker 2: with someone that you were formerly friends with but something's
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  Speaker 2: not going quite right? Think about that individual or those individuals.
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  Speaker 2: Are you quick to judge or condemn? Consider how you
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  Speaker 2: can extend patience and grace, allowing space for reconciliation and healing.
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  Speaker 2: And then next best move in reach out to someone
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  Speaker 2: with whom you are having a conflict. Offer a gesture
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  Speaker 2: of peace, whether it's a kind word or notes or
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  Speaker 2: invitation to talk, show them that you are open to
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  Speaker 2: reconciliation and healing. God does not afflict willingly do you.
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