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02 19 2025 God’s Ideal and Remedial Wills · 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: 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, February nineteen,
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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 in Lesson number eight, God's Love and Justice,
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  Speaker 2: and our caption for today is God's ideal and remedial wills.
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  Speaker 2: God's ideal and remedial wills. Let me just say right now,
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  Speaker 2: don't make it complicated. We'll get into that in just
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  Speaker 2: a moment, but first i'd like to say welcome to
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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 and Heaven, thank you
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  Speaker 2: for giving us this new morning and for the privilege
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  Speaker 2: that we have to live inside of your will. Help
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  Speaker 2: us to do so. In Jesus's name, I pray, Amen
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  Speaker 2: and Amen again. I want to say again, do not
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  Speaker 2: complicate this, please all right, please don't complicate this. It
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  Speaker 2: says God's ideal and remedial will. So this is how
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  Speaker 2: I strip this down for it to make sense to
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  Speaker 2: my mind. So, God has a desire or he has
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  Speaker 2: desires for your life or situations that happen on planet Earth. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: and then comes God's permission, which is to drive us
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  Speaker 2: to his desire when we are not cooperative. So these
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  Speaker 2: are two categories of our reality while living on planet Earth.
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  Speaker 2: God's desire as it is in his eternal mind as
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  Speaker 2: he envisioned it from before there was a beginning. In
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  Speaker 2: this case, let's talk about your salvation, my salvation. God's
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  Speaker 2: desire is that you or I be saved in his
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  Speaker 2: eternal kingse done. God's permission is that sometimes we don't
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  Speaker 2: cooperate with his desire, and we have to go through
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  Speaker 2: bumps and bruises. Sometimes we have to have challenges in
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  Speaker 2: our lives that will guide us back into his direction.
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  Speaker 2: I think Samson is a good example. God's desire was
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  Speaker 2: for Samson to live as a Nazarite, keep the vow,
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  Speaker 2: do God's will, deliver the Philistines into God's hands if
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  Speaker 2: you want to say God's hands, if that makes sense
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  Speaker 2: to you, and then the rest is history. But Samson
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  Speaker 2: had a problem, Like he had a problem with pride,
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  Speaker 2: he had a problem with not wanting to depend on God.
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  Speaker 2: He had a problem with his sexual reality. Like this
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  Speaker 2: was Samson's problem. And so Samson goes to his parents
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  Speaker 2: and says, I want this woman, and the Bible does
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  Speaker 2: not identify the woman's name, and the parents gave the correct,
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  Speaker 2: the technically accurate response to say Samson, listen, like could
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  Speaker 2: you not have found a woman from among God's people,
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  Speaker 2: and he was like, no, I want that woman. And
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says and his parents wished not, or they
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  Speaker 2: did not realize that it was the will of God,
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  Speaker 2: for God sought occasion against the Philistines, or it was
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  Speaker 2: it was God at work, for God sought occasion against
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  Speaker 2: the Philistines. See, God already knew. We don't blame God
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  Speaker 2: for knowing everything. But God already knew that Samson would
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  Speaker 2: not be cooperative. God already knew the weaknesses of Samson,
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  Speaker 2: and therefore he used by permission the desires in Samson's
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  Speaker 2: unholy heart in this time so that God could get
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  Speaker 2: his will accomplished. What was his will, His will or
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  Speaker 2: his desire was to do whatever he needed to do
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  Speaker 2: in the case of the Philistines, and so God let
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  Speaker 2: that go through in order to accomplish his desire. But
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  Speaker 2: really his desire would have been that Samson did exactly
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  Speaker 2: what God said, exactly as God commanded, according to the
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  Speaker 2: covenant that God had with him, And we wouldn't have
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  Speaker 2: had all of the messiness of Samson's life. And I
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  Speaker 2: could go on and on. I mean, the Bible says
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  Speaker 2: that God gave at Abraham and Sarah or Abram and
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  Speaker 2: Sarai his mindset. He told him. He told them that
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  Speaker 2: he was going to make of Abraham or Abram a
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  Speaker 2: great nation, like people from all over the world would
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  Speaker 2: become a part of his offspring and the rest would
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  Speaker 2: have been history. And oh, by the way, yeah, Abram
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  Speaker 2: could not have children and like he couldn't his maleness
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  Speaker 2: didn't work. And his wife Sarah, she was beyond the
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  Speaker 2: time of childbirth. And God still said, here is my promise,
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  Speaker 2: this is what's gonna happen. That's his desire. But they
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  Speaker 2: did not trust God, and the Bible says that they
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  Speaker 2: crafted a plan. Sarah said, go into Hagar and you
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  Speaker 2: can have a child with her, and then that'll be
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  Speaker 2: a fulfillment of God's will. And it's like no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: no no. Fast forward. The reason why, the reason why
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  Speaker 2: Abram Abraham now had to go up to Mount Mariah
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  Speaker 2: and quote sacrifice his son was so that God could
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  Speaker 2: test his faith. So Abraham would learn how to trust
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  Speaker 2: God implicitly, since he had not done it in that
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  Speaker 2: incident in the beginning, when God promised that he would
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  Speaker 2: give him a son and a great nation. You see,
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  Speaker 2: so God's will would not have been, or his desire
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  Speaker 2: would not have been to have to go through the
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  Speaker 2: whole Mariah incident. But because Abram and Sarah, Abraham and
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  Speaker 2: Sarah did not do things exactly as God would have
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  Speaker 2: commanded or desired, then by permission now they have to
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  Speaker 2: go through all of this rigamarole, all of this song
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  Speaker 2: and dance. But it was to guide them back to
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  Speaker 2: God's actual desire because they were not cooperative in the
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  Speaker 2: first place. Okay, So I hope you understand that. And
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  Speaker 2: we're going to read as we come to a swift
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  Speaker 2: close here in a couple of minutes from the Book Ephesians,
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  Speaker 2: the Book of Ephesians, chapter one, beginning at verse three.
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  Speaker 2: And so really the question that we need to be
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  Speaker 2: answering is where are you? Where are you? Are you
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  Speaker 2: on the side of God's desire or on the side
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  Speaker 2: of God's permission? Jonah, Samson, Mariah, King, David? On what
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  Speaker 2: side of this fence are you? And so the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: blessed is the God and Father of our lofe Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 2: who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the
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  Speaker 2: heavenly realms in Christ, for he chose us in Christ
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  Speaker 2: before the foundation of the world, that we should be
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  Speaker 2: holy and blameless before Him in love. See that is
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  Speaker 2: God's desire. He verse five did this by predestining us
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  Speaker 2: to adoption as his legal heirs through Christ. See that's
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  Speaker 2: God's desire according to the pleasure of his will, to
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  Speaker 2: the praise of the glory of his grace that He
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  Speaker 2: has freely bestowed on us in his dearly beloved son.
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  Speaker 2: In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness
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  Speaker 2: of sins, according to the riches of his grace that
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  Speaker 2: He had lavished on us in all wisdom and insight.
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  Speaker 2: Verse nine. He did this when he revealed to us
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  Speaker 2: the mystery of his will. That's his desire, according to
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  Speaker 2: the good pleasure that he set forth in Christ. That
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  Speaker 2: is his desire toward the administration of the fullness of
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  Speaker 2: the times, to head up all things in Christ, the
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  Speaker 2: things in heaven, the things on earth. In Christ. We
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  Speaker 2: two have been claimed as God's own possession since we
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  Speaker 2: were predestined. That's God's desire, according to the purpose of
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  Speaker 2: Him who accomplishes all things according to the counsel of
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  Speaker 2: his will. See God's desires that people would it would
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  Speaker 2: receive all of what I just read become His children.
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  Speaker 2: But sometimes people have to go through all kinds of
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  Speaker 2: peaks and valleys in order to get to God's desire. Peace.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
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  Speaker 2: Friends.
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,