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02 04 2025 God’s Changeless Character · 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: 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 Tuesday, February four,
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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, God's Love and Justice. Our caption for today
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  Speaker 2: is God's Changeless Character, God's Changeless Character. We'll get into
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  Speaker 2: that in just a moment, but first I like to
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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 day and for loving us
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  Speaker 2: beyond our capacity to comprehend. We are grateful Father that
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  Speaker 2: you have given us every spiritual blessing. In Christ. Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: please help us to know and live according to the
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  Speaker 2: truth that you do not change. In Jesus' name, I
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  Speaker 2: pray Amen and a man again. God's changeless character. What
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  Speaker 2: does that mean to you that God's character does not change.
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  Speaker 2: I will tell you that based on my behavior style,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't even mean from a spiritual perspective, just
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  Speaker 2: the way that God has wired me. I love the
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  Speaker 2: fact that his character doesn't change. I like things to
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  Speaker 2: be consistent. I like stability. I like a certain level
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  Speaker 2: of predictability. And please don't take me too too far
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  Speaker 2: with that one. But I like the fact that when
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  Speaker 2: I wake up in the morning, let's talk about something else.
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  Speaker 2: That the ground is where I expect for it to be.
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  Speaker 2: When I take my feet, I spin around and I'm
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  Speaker 2: barely awake, and I put my feet down. I like
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  Speaker 2: the fact that the floor is there. And then beneath
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  Speaker 2: the floor and the foundation of my home, the ground
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  Speaker 2: is right where I left it yesterday. And I say
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  Speaker 2: I left it, Yeah, for a fact, but it's still
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  Speaker 2: where I thought it would be, because it's consisting instantly there.
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  Speaker 2: And God's character of love, his character of justice and
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  Speaker 2: drive for righteousness. I love the fact that I don't
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  Speaker 2: have to be confused from day to day. Does God
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  Speaker 2: still love me? I don't need to be confused about that?
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  Speaker 2: Is He still holy? I do not need to be
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  Speaker 2: confused about that. Has He changed his mind about filling
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  Speaker 2: the blank X or filling the blank? Why? I don't
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  Speaker 2: need to be confused about that? And the Bible says
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  Speaker 2: here in the Book of Malachi Malachi chapter three, so much.
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  Speaker 2: In Malachi chapter three it says, for I am the Lord,
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  Speaker 2: I change not. Therefore, ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
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  Speaker 2: What wait a minute, God doesn't change and that's why
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  Speaker 2: we're not consumed. Wow, there is so much to say there.
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  Speaker 2: But let's go to the Bible. Book of James James,
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  Speaker 2: chapter one, and we will read verse seventeen the Bible
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  Speaker 2: Book of James, chapter one, and we will read in
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  Speaker 2: verse seventeen, Every good gift, how many good gifts, Every
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  Speaker 2: good gift, and every perfect gift is from above and
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  Speaker 2: cometh down from the Father of Lights, with whom is
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  Speaker 2: no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Let me read it
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  Speaker 2: in another version. All generous giving and every perfect gift
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  Speaker 2: is from above. So if you are looking for a
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  Speaker 2: spiritual blessing, it comes from God. If you need something
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  Speaker 2: practical and temporal in your life, you need food, water, clothing, shelter,
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  Speaker 2: you need comfort or peace. God is the one that
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  Speaker 2: gives this. It comes from Him, coming from the Father
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  Speaker 2: of Lights, with whom is no variation. And I just
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  Speaker 2: want to stick right there for a moment. We see
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  Speaker 2: the moon has phases. Look at your calendar, and if
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  Speaker 2: you're not able to see it in the sky with
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  Speaker 2: your naked eye, just look at your calendar. Look at
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  Speaker 2: a moon phase calendar. You see that the way that
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  Speaker 2: we see the moon from planet Earth has phases, and
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  Speaker 2: the light doesn't look the same depending on the face. Also,
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  Speaker 2: we have clouds that even cover the sun from our perspective.
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  Speaker 2: When we're looking up to the sky, there are times
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  Speaker 2: that there are clouds that seem to make the sun
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  Speaker 2: go away, except the sun hasn't gone anywhere. But with God,
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  Speaker 2: there is no variableness when we see him. It is
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  Speaker 2: always light, when we see how he moves in and
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  Speaker 2: among people, even if we don't fully understand it, it
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  Speaker 2: is always light, and in him is no darkness at all.
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  Speaker 2: Let me continue, there is no variation or the slightest
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  Speaker 2: hint of change. Let me go to verse eighteen. By
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  Speaker 2: his sovereign plan, he gives us birth through the message
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  Speaker 2: of truth. And so we know now the standard of
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  Speaker 2: this truth, this reality is truth, that we would be
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  Speaker 2: a kind of first fruits of all he created. So again,
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  Speaker 2: I happen to like the fact that he doesn't change.
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  Speaker 2: You mean, even when you want him to do something
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  Speaker 2: and you've asked him for something in prayer and he
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  Speaker 2: doesn't do it. Yeah, And even when you go back
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  Speaker 2: to him and he doesn't change his mind. Yes, I
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  Speaker 2: like that, even if I don't like necessarily the discussion
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  Speaker 2: that we're having at the moment. And I know from
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  Speaker 2: his changeless character perspective that all things are working for
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  Speaker 2: my good, because this is a baseline, This is a
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  Speaker 2: foundational truth. All things are working for my good because
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  Speaker 2: God is intentional, never changing, in the sense that what
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  Speaker 2: he does or does not do is so that He
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  Speaker 2: is glorified, and that I am edified as a human being.
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  Speaker 2: That God is glorified, and I am edified both and
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  Speaker 2: at the same time, I'm thankful. I'm thankful for this.
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  Speaker 2: And so the lesson writer says God does enter into
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  Speaker 2: back and forth relationships with his creation, but through all
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  Speaker 2: such back and forth relationships and through everything else, God's
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  Speaker 2: character is constant. So yes, there is a conversation. You see, Moses.
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  Speaker 2: There was a time when God said, come here, Moses,
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  Speaker 2: I need to talk to you. I'm about to destroy
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  Speaker 2: my people, and listen, I can create a new nation
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  Speaker 2: from you. I'm going to create a new nation, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna destroy this one. And Moses is saying, but God, please,
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  Speaker 2: please don't do that, like block me out of your book. God,
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  Speaker 2: block me out of your book, rather than to do that.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, like if you do that, then
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  Speaker 2: the people in the surrounding your enemies will say that
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  Speaker 2: you brought your people out of captivity to destroy them.
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  Speaker 2: Like they will be confused about your character. And then
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  Speaker 2: the Bible says that God did not destroy his people.
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  Speaker 2: Now there's a long story about whether God was going
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  Speaker 2: to destroy or not, but I won't get into that today.
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  Speaker 2: But the fact is, even that discussion, back and forth,
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  Speaker 2: back and forth, at the base of it, at the
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  Speaker 2: foundation of it was God's constant and consistent character. God
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  Speaker 2: is not the source of evil. He is not the
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  Speaker 2: source of confusion. And so I really want to just
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  Speaker 2: jump in now to the companion Guide, the Your Daily
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  Speaker 2: Portion Companion Guide. Let's go to page ninety ninety three
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  Speaker 2: and go with the personal application doub in the acronym
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  Speaker 2: for when dou w what is important now. God's unchanging
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  Speaker 2: character reassures that he is dependable even when everything around
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  Speaker 2: us shifts. This gives us confidence to face life's challenges
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  Speaker 2: with the assurance that God's love and support will not waiver.
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  Speaker 2: I internalize the insight. Identify areas in your life where
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  Speaker 2: you have felt uncertain or anxious. Recognize that while circumstances
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  Speaker 2: may change God's character and promises, do not allow this
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  Speaker 2: truth to bring peace and comfort. I want you to
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  Speaker 2: go into the community a little bit later, go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and type in the next best move and we will
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  Speaker 2: continue to win together peace.
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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,