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03 31 2025 God Wants to Be Understood · 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 Monday, March
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  Speaker 2: thirty one, 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: 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: new lesson study series how to Study Bible Prophecy, and
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today is God wants to be understood.
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  Speaker 2: Wants to be understood. We'll get into that in just
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  Speaker 2: a moment, but before we do, I'd like to say
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  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways that we continue to
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  Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and
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  Speaker 2: then we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you
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  Speaker 2: for giving us this new day and for the privilege
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  Speaker 2: that we have to study your word to be able
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  Speaker 2: to hear from you. And I ask you, Father to
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  Speaker 2: help us to get it in our minds that you
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  Speaker 2: really do want for us to understand you. In Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and a man again. Let me just
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  Speaker 2: say something really quickly as we begin here, that God
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  Speaker 2: is not playing pikaboo with us. And for those of
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  Speaker 2: you who are not familiar wherever you are in the
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  Speaker 2: world with the concept of pekaboo, I want you to
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  Speaker 2: look it up on the internet. Pee ka boo. It's
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  Speaker 2: a game that children play with their parents many times.
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  Speaker 2: But God is not playing peek a boo with us.
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  Speaker 2: And he's also not playing hide and seek. That's another one.
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  Speaker 2: Look that up if you're not familiar. I know every
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  Speaker 2: culture of the world doesn't necessarily play these games. But
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  Speaker 2: God is not putting himself in a position where he
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  Speaker 2: cannot be found and making it difficult for humans to
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  Speaker 2: actually connect with him. That is not what's happening. And
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  Speaker 2: sometimes people become frustrated because we have the wrong an
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  Speaker 2: idea about God and have the wrong perspective and think
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  Speaker 2: this is exactly what God is doing, and when we
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  Speaker 2: are not able to find him or discern him, then
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  Speaker 2: we get really, really really confused. And it's not that
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  Speaker 2: at all. What God wants is to find for us
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  Speaker 2: to find him. In fact, the Bible says that Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: when he came into human flesh, his name was to
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  Speaker 2: be called the Manuel. That being interpreted God with us.
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  Speaker 2: You see. So God has in the Old Testament made
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  Speaker 2: his tabernacle or his tent with us, which is why
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  Speaker 2: we have everything we know about the sanctuary, so that
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  Speaker 2: we can be saved. Okay, And so the truth is
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  Speaker 2: that there are other reasons why we may not understand God.
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  Speaker 2: Now let's go into the Bible Book of Psalms, the
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  Speaker 2: Bible Book of Psalms, chapter one thirty nine, and begin
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  Speaker 2: with verse one. Okay, Oh Lord, you examine me and
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  Speaker 2: know you know when I sit down, and when I
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  Speaker 2: get up, even from far away, you understand. You carefully
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  Speaker 2: observe me. When I travel or lie down to rest.
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  Speaker 2: You are aware of everything I do. Certainly my tongue
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  Speaker 2: does not frame a word without you, oh Lord, being
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  Speaker 2: thoroughly aware of it. You squeeze me from behind, and
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  Speaker 2: in front, you place your hand on me. Your knowledge
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  Speaker 2: is beyond comprehension. It is far beyond me, and I
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  Speaker 2: am unable to understand or fathom it. We'll come back
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  Speaker 2: to the thought in a second. Just give me a moment.
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  Speaker 2: Psalm chapter one, forty seven and verse five. The Bible says,
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  Speaker 2: great is our Lord, and of great power. His understanding
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  Speaker 2: is infinite. I think you can see where this is going.
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  Speaker 2: Just give me a second. And Romans chapter eleven, verse
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  Speaker 2: thirty three, the Bible reads, Oh, the depth of the
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  Speaker 2: riches and wisdom and knowledge of God. How unsearchable are
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  Speaker 2: his judgments, and how unfathomable are his ways or his
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  Speaker 2: ways past? Finding out one more? First John chapter three,
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  Speaker 2: verse twenty, the Bible reads that if your conscience condemns,
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  Speaker 2: our conscience condemns us. God is greater than our conscience,
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  Speaker 2: and he knows all things. So we're going to look
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  Speaker 2: at a few areas of contrast between God and us. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: a few areas of contrast. Let's go with the scope
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  Speaker 2: the scope God. He is infinite. God is unlimited. Well, humans,
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  Speaker 2: by contrast, are finite. We are limited in all ways.
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  Speaker 2: Number two the death God. He is complete in his comprehension.
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  Speaker 2: He knows everything and understands everything. Well, humans have a
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  Speaker 2: surface understanding. We see some things, we may be able
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  Speaker 2: to discern something about them, but there are always illimitable
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  Speaker 2: spaces that we cannot even begin to understand, even in
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  Speaker 2: the things on planet Earth, much less in the eternal things. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Number three Time God, past, present, and future. He's the
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  Speaker 2: one who was, the one who is the one who
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  Speaker 2: is to come. He's the eternal one. Blessed be his name.
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  Speaker 2: But we were limited by time. We are limited by
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  Speaker 2: time even when we enter into eternity as people who
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  Speaker 2: have yielded our will to God. I'm looking forward to
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  Speaker 2: the time that we will begin to inhabit eternity with God.
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  Speaker 2: Even then we will have had an origin, though we
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  Speaker 2: will have started somewhere. Yes, we will go throughout the
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  Speaker 2: ceaseless ages of eternity. If we're God's children. Ah, but
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  Speaker 2: we started somewhere. God didn't start anywhere. He's the one
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  Speaker 2: that was there from before there was a beginning. He's
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  Speaker 2: the one who has all ways been and then comes intimacy.
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  Speaker 2: God he knows the thoughts and motives of every human being,
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  Speaker 2: every being for that matter. But we we get mixed
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  Speaker 2: up about each other's motives. Why did you say that
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  Speaker 2: this way? You look really wonderful today, But what did
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  Speaker 2: I look like yesterday? You see what I mean? So
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  Speaker 2: we often misunderstand the thoughts and motives of others. And
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  Speaker 2: let me just give you a newsflash here. Sometimes we
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  Speaker 2: don't even understand our own thoughts and our own motives.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says that the heart is deceitful above all things,
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  Speaker 2: and desperately wicked. Who can know it? But God knows
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  Speaker 2: and understands the thoughts and motives all the time. And
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  Speaker 2: then finally, the final category accuracy. God has perfect knowledge.
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  Speaker 2: Humans don't. Okay, that's too simple. We have we're prone
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  Speaker 2: to make errors, mistakes, error, sometimes forced errors. Errors. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: God perfect knowledge, but we are prone to err. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: And so now we go through the fact that even
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  Speaker 2: though we will never know and understand everything. We can
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  Speaker 2: understand what is necessary for connecting with God. And so
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads in Two Timothy, chapter three, Verses fourteen
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  Speaker 2: and fifteen. You, however, must continue in the things you
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  Speaker 2: have learned and are confident about. You know who taught you,
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  Speaker 2: and how from infancy you have known the holy writings
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  Speaker 2: of the scriptures, which are able to give you wisdom
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  Speaker 2: for salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. You see, So
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  Speaker 2: now we can go into the word of God. Those
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  Speaker 2: sixty six blessed books, that the Holy Spirit moved upon
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  Speaker 2: them who were writing Ah and gave them the power
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  Speaker 2: to communicate the thoughts of God in that context. So
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  Speaker 2: that is where we begin. We begin with God's word.
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  Speaker 2: We begin with how it all relates to our salvation,
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  Speaker 2: and whenever we lack wisdom, we ask of God. And
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had the time. But there are some
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  Speaker 2: other things we need to recognize, as God being the creator,
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  Speaker 2: the creator, and that he universally loves us. And there
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  Speaker 2: is a prophetic purpose. There's a prophetic purpose where God
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  Speaker 2: is not going to do anything important without first revealing
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  Speaker 2: it through his servants.
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  Speaker 1: The prophets make it a great day, Thanks for joining
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  Speaker 1: us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone,
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  Speaker 1: but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.
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  Speaker 1: This has been your daily portion with El David Harris.
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  Speaker 1: Make it a great day. Yeah,