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02 08 2025 The Problem of Evil · 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: today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
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  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
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  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
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  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
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  Speaker 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
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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 Sabbath, February eight,
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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, and our caption for
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  Speaker 2: today is the problem of evil. The problem of evil.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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  Speaker 2: faith and fellowship. We'll go ahead and pray now, Father,
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  Speaker 2: we do thank you for this Sabbath morning, for the
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to experience you in a special way. Father, Please
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  Speaker 2: help us not to just identify a problem, but help
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  Speaker 2: us to live in the fullness of your light and
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  Speaker 2: your Holy Spirit, to receive and experience the solution. You
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  Speaker 2: are the solution. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and
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  Speaker 2: a man again the problem of evil. Now, I need
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  Speaker 2: to ask myself reflective question, and I want you to
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  Speaker 2: do the same thing. Is there a problem with me?
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  Speaker 2: That's the question. Is there a problem with me? This
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  Speaker 2: is very important because really looking at evil like in
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  Speaker 2: a vacuum, looking at it at far off in the distance,
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  Speaker 2: looking at evil in a way that is that is
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  Speaker 2: not connected to my own behavior is sometimes fruitless. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't say all the time. I mean sometimes, okay. And
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  Speaker 2: so we do understand that when God created Lucifer, he
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  Speaker 2: was created perfectly. He was he was the covering cherub
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  Speaker 2: or a covering cherub in heaven. Okay, And so the
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  Speaker 2: Bible says that every beautiful jewel was his covering. He
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  Speaker 2: reflected the character of God even on his visual form.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm grateful for that inmation, because the Bible says
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  Speaker 2: that at some point iniquity was found in him. Mm hmm,
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  Speaker 2: this covering cheruph this one that couldn't have been closer
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  Speaker 2: to God, like, there's no way to be closer to
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  Speaker 2: God than than he was. And and the Bible says
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  Speaker 2: that that what happened next At some point I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how long it took after he was created, I
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  Speaker 2: don't I don't know how many hundreds or thousands or
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  Speaker 2: more years that it took. But at some point he
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  Speaker 2: became mysteriously dissatisfied with his connection with God. And remember,
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  Speaker 2: there was no such thing as sin, there was no
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  Speaker 2: such thing as as evil, like it began in his bosom.
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  Speaker 2: This is why it's a mystery. We'll come back to that.
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  Speaker 2: And so and so and so. The Bible says that
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  Speaker 2: when you know it teaches us principally and then practically
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  Speaker 2: that yes, when he chose not to repent, we know
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  Speaker 2: that God is a merciful God. I'm sure that God
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  Speaker 2: would have remonstrated with him. We don't have all of
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  Speaker 2: those details in the Bible about it, but we know
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  Speaker 2: the character of God, and it comes a point when yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he would not be convinced. And so the Bible says
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  Speaker 2: that there was war in heaven. Yes, Mi kl and
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  Speaker 2: his angels fought against the dragon and his angels, and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there was no place found for the dragon in heaven
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  Speaker 2: with him anymore. So he's kicked out of heaven. So
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  Speaker 2: the Bible continues that, yeah, well, unto the inhabitors of
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  Speaker 2: the earth of the sea, because the devil or the
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  Speaker 2: accuser of the brethren, the dragon is cast down to
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  Speaker 2: the earth. He's cast down to the earth. Now, let
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  Speaker 2: me ask you a question again. Is there a problem
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  Speaker 2: with you? I'm asking me the question, is there a
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  Speaker 2: problem with me? Has the devil taken his warlike mentality
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  Speaker 2: and placed it in my bosom and I accepted it?
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  Speaker 2: Or was it just a temptation? Is it a temptation?
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  Speaker 2: And every day we yield our will to God all day,
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  Speaker 2: every day we yield and overcome those temptations by by
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  Speaker 2: the blood of the lamb. And so is there a
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  Speaker 2: problem with me? And so the Bible does say that
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  Speaker 2: at some point in the future. We'll talk about that
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  Speaker 2: in just a second. God is going to do something special.
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  Speaker 2: And from the Bible Book of Revelation, chapter twenty one
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  Speaker 2: and verse four, the Bible reads, and God will wipe
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  Speaker 2: away every tear. God will do it. He's going to
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  Speaker 2: wipe away every tear from their eyes. These are from
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  Speaker 2: the eyes of the people who are choosing still to
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  Speaker 2: serve God, who are yielded to his will, the people
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  Speaker 2: who love God ultimately and in the end analysis would
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  Speaker 2: have chosen for the last time to continue in the
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  Speaker 2: faith of God. Those individuals from their eyes, and there
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  Speaker 2: shall be no more death, Thank God. There will be
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  Speaker 2: no more sorrow, there will be no more crying, there
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  Speaker 2: will be no more pain. Are you experiencing pain right now?
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  Speaker 2: Are you experiencing crying right now because you've lost a
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  Speaker 2: loved one, or maybe in your physical body you are
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  Speaker 2: experiencing pain because of some condition with your health. And
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  Speaker 2: the question is are you ready for the day when
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  Speaker 2: there will be no more pain? For the former things
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  Speaker 2: have passed away? And so I did promise, I'd said
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  Speaker 2: that i'd share when like you can type in the chat.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead and start typing in the chat. If you're
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  Speaker 2: on social media or on YouTube, go ahead and type
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  Speaker 2: in the chat when will this happen? When will this happen?
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  Speaker 2: When will God wipe away all tears from our eyes?
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  Speaker 2: When will there be no more death, sorrow, pain, or
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  Speaker 2: anything of the sort. When will all sin and sinners
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  Speaker 2: be destroyed? And when I say sinners, I'm talking about
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  Speaker 2: the people who refuse to love love, the ones who
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  Speaker 2: said I don't need you to transform, be God. I'm
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  Speaker 2: done with you, those folks and the devil and his angels.
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  Speaker 2: When will that happen? And I think now we're getting
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  Speaker 2: a clear indication it is not at the Second Coming
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  Speaker 2: when all of this happens. We're looking forward to the coming.
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  Speaker 2: But once God's people would have lived with God for
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  Speaker 2: a thousand years following that great and beautiful day of
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  Speaker 2: the second Coming of Jesus Christ, after the thousand years
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  Speaker 2: are finished, the Bible teaches us that God will do
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  Speaker 2: what we read. Now, let me read from the book
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  Speaker 2: the Great Controversy, The Great Controversy, And we're setting up
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  Speaker 2: for the week to come beginning tomorrow, okay, And it's
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  Speaker 2: coming from page four hundred and ninety two, and it
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  Speaker 2: reads to many minds the origin of sin and the
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  Speaker 2: reason for its existence a resource of great perplexity. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: we're not talking about sin on earth. We're talking about
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  Speaker 2: sin the very first time there was a sin ever
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  Speaker 2: in the universe. They see the work of evil, with
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  Speaker 2: its terrible results of woe and desolation, and they question
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  Speaker 2: how all of this can exist under the sovereignty of
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  Speaker 2: one who is in finite in wisdom, in power and love.
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  Speaker 2: Here is a mystery of which they find no explanation.
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  Speaker 2: Whoa yeah. But the question that I have to ask
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  Speaker 2: me is not as the not what are the details
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  Speaker 2: of the origin of sin? How did that happen way
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  Speaker 2: back then? Which is important, maybe something that we can
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  Speaker 2: continue to study. I've studied it, maybe you have studied it.
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  Speaker 2: But in my day to day this Sabbath morning m
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  Speaker 2: at nine minutes, almost nine minutes into our program this morning,
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  Speaker 2: with just about a minute or two to go, why
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  Speaker 2: is it that I choose sometimes to go down the
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  Speaker 2: wrong path? And what is the antidote? Like, how do
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  Speaker 2: I make the decision to serve God? How do I
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  Speaker 2: accept him as the one who will give me a
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  Speaker 2: new birth experience, the one who rights his laws in
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  Speaker 2: my heart and on my mind, like, how do I
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  Speaker 2: put myself in the position and the position that I
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  Speaker 2: will no longer choose to go down that path of unrighteousness.
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  Speaker 2: And so today I say, we look forward to the
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  Speaker 2: day where there will be no more sin. We look
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  Speaker 2: forward to the day. But in the meantime, we have
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  Speaker 2: the privilege. We have the privilege. The problem with evil
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  Speaker 2: is really that some of people still accept that. But
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  Speaker 2: we have the privilege until then to surrender our will
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  Speaker 2: to God, and He can transform our lives so evil
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  Speaker 2: won't prevail in our lives. 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, put 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,