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01 25 2025 The Wrath of Divine Love · 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 Sabbath, January
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  Speaker 2: twenty five, 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: Lesson study series God's Love and Justice, and our caption
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  Speaker 2: for today is the Wrath of Divine Love, the Wrath
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  Speaker 2: of de vine Love. Before we get into that, I'd
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  Speaker 2: like to say welcome to you and ask you to
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  Speaker 2: go over to your Daily Portion dot com please join
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  Speaker 2: our online community. I want you to please please let
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  Speaker 2: us know where you are in the world at your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the ways
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  Speaker 2: that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father
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  Speaker 2: in Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day
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  Speaker 2: and for the opportunity that we have to open your
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  Speaker 2: word again. And I'm praying God that we will see
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  Speaker 2: you as you really are and not the way that
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  Speaker 2: people have told us that you are. In Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 2: I pray Amen and Amen again. I will admit that
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  Speaker 2: it is very difficult to have a relationship with someone
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  Speaker 2: when we are listening to what other people say about them.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care if it's good or bad. There are
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  Speaker 2: some things that we just need to experience or know
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  Speaker 2: for ourselves. And when it comes to God, that is
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  Speaker 2: even more the reality, because quite frankly, people say all
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  Speaker 2: kind of things about God that are just not true.
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  Speaker 2: They make it seem as if there is some kind
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  Speaker 2: of divine split personality, you understand, where they think that
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  Speaker 2: the Old Testament God is this God and the New
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  Speaker 2: Testament God is that God. Can I just oversimplify for
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  Speaker 2: us this Sabbath morning, God is the same today, yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: and forever more. I know I said it in that order.
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  Speaker 2: I said today like the God, the right now, God
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  Speaker 2: that you are experiencing today, who opened up your eyes
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  Speaker 2: this morning, who gave you a breath of fresh air
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  Speaker 2: so you could fill your lungs and your body could
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  Speaker 2: be completely neutrified. Ah. And he is the one who
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  Speaker 2: was yesterday, the same God today, yesterday and in the
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  Speaker 2: future for more. So we thank God. And by the way,
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  Speaker 2: even before there was a yesterday, from before there was
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  Speaker 2: a beginning in eternity past, he was the same God.
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  Speaker 2: And so we don't need to splice his character, dice
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  Speaker 2: him up, and try to make it seem as if
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  Speaker 2: he's different somehow. If anything, we need to understand the
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  Speaker 2: manifestation of God in the particular situations in our lives
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  Speaker 2: and in the lives of others. If anything, we need
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  Speaker 2: to understand that when Jesus came in what we call
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  Speaker 2: now the New Covenant or New Testament era, now we
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  Speaker 2: get to see love in action in a way that
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  Speaker 2: we had not seen before. Why why not, I should say,
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  Speaker 2: because for God's soul love the world, that he gave
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  Speaker 2: his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should
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  Speaker 2: not perish but have everlasting life. You see, so we
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  Speaker 2: had known of the Messiah who was to come in
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  Speaker 2: the Old Testament, but in the New get to see
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  Speaker 2: the Messiah that God had promised to save his people
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  Speaker 2: from our sins. So we get to see that in
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  Speaker 2: living color. And so I want to begin by looking
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  Speaker 2: at in the Old Testament. I know what I just said,
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  Speaker 2: the God of compassionate care in Deuteronomy chapter seven and
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  Speaker 2: verse nine. Okay, Deuteronomy chapter seven and verse nine, and
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  Speaker 2: the Bible reads. Know therefore that the Lord thy God,
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  Speaker 2: he is God, the faithful God. You see, God is
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  Speaker 2: faithful in the Old Testament, which keepeth covenant and mercy.
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  Speaker 2: Wait a minute, God is merciful in the Old Testament.
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  Speaker 2: Yep with them that love Him and keep his commandments
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  Speaker 2: to a thousand generations. Aren't you glad that we can
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  Speaker 2: see the love of God, the mercy of God in
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  Speaker 2: the Old Testament. Aren't we grateful for this? Absolutely? And
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  Speaker 2: then we see the promise keeping God of the Old
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  Speaker 2: Testament in Isaiah fifteen four and verse ten. For the
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  Speaker 2: mountains shall depart and the hills be removed, But my kindness, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: in the Old Testament we see God being kind shall
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  Speaker 2: not depart from thee neither shall the covenant of my
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  Speaker 2: peace be removed? Seth the Lord that hath mercy on thee.
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  Speaker 2: And then we see forgiveness and restoration. In Joel chapter
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  Speaker 2: two and verse thirteen, the Bible reads, and rend your
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  Speaker 2: heart and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord
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  Speaker 2: your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger,
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  Speaker 2: can you imagine, yep, slow to anger, and of great kindness,
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  Speaker 2: and repenteth him of the evil. Yes. And so in
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  Speaker 2: the New Testament we see justice and judgment, because judgment
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  Speaker 2: and justice mean righteousness. And there are times that God
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  Speaker 2: has to execute judgment. There are times that he has
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  Speaker 2: to punish wickedness. There are times that he has to
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  Speaker 2: chide and chastise wickedness in his people, and then execute.
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  Speaker 2: God forbid execute judgment in individuals who refuse to love love.
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  Speaker 2: But the Bible says here in Revelation chapter twenty and
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  Speaker 2: verse fifteen, and whosoever was not found written in the
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  Speaker 2: Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire,
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  Speaker 2: that is in the New Testament. And then the cleansing
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  Speaker 2: of the temple. And we can see one verse in
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  Speaker 2: that reference here in John chapter two in verse fifteen,
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  Speaker 2: and when he had made a scourge of small cords.
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  Speaker 2: He drove them out of the temple, and the sheep
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  Speaker 2: and the oxen, and poured out the changers money, and
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  Speaker 2: overthrew the tables. Aren't you glad that God does not change?
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  Speaker 2: You're like what? Yes? The people were making his house
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  Speaker 2: of prayer as he would have identified in Isaiah chapter
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  Speaker 2: fifty six, the house of prayer, that is for all people,
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  Speaker 2: those who are keeping covenant with him. The in the
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  Speaker 2: New Testament turned his house of prayer into a den
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  Speaker 2: of thies. And he was unhappy. Okay, I super underestimated
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  Speaker 2: and super simplified it. He was angry, and he had
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  Speaker 2: to drive them out so that the honor of God's
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  Speaker 2: name could be manifest in this place where people were
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  Speaker 2: to connect with God and not be extorted as a
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  Speaker 2: barrier to their connection with God. And then, of course
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  Speaker 2: we see in the story of Anonias and Saphira. I'll
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  Speaker 2: just read verse ten of Acts chapter five in the
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  Speaker 2: New Testament, I might add, then fell she down straightway
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  Speaker 2: at his feet and yielded up the ghost, and the
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  Speaker 2: young men came in and found her dead, carrying her forth,
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  Speaker 2: buried her, buried her by her husband. So Anonias and
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  Speaker 2: Saphirah both lied to the Holy Ghost. They lied to
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  Speaker 2: the Holy Ghost, and then the wife she Saphirah doubled
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  Speaker 2: down on the lie, and both of them were judged.
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  Speaker 2: They were condemned because they decided that they did not
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  Speaker 2: want to be truthful to God and honor him by
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  Speaker 2: doing his will. And so we don't need to splice
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  Speaker 2: God or dice God. We understand that in both testaments
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  Speaker 2: he is all powerful, Blessed be his name. He is
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  Speaker 2: full of love and mercy, Blessed be his name. But
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  Speaker 2: as he announced to Moses on that mountain, he will
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  Speaker 2: in no wise clear the guilty. What I want you
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  Speaker 2: to do is focus on pages seventy one and seventy
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  Speaker 2: two in the Your Daily Portion companion guide on the
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  Speaker 2: relationship aspect. You can focus wherever you desire, but my
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  Speaker 2: mind goes to the relationship aspect of the discussion or application.
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  Speaker 2: What is important now. God's wrath against evil shows that
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  Speaker 2: he cares deeply about relationships and the well being of
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  Speaker 2: his people. In our own relationships, we should balance compassion
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  Speaker 2: with a firm stance against behaviors that would harm others.
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  Speaker 2: And let's just go with n what is the next
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  Speaker 2: best move. Initiate a conversation where you can express both
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  Speaker 2: your love and your concerns. Set boundaries where necessary, seek
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  Speaker 2: reconciliation where possible. Allow God's balance of love and justice
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  Speaker 2: to shape your approach. Make it a great Sabbath 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,