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02 16 2025 Our Sovereign God · 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 Sunday, February sixteen,
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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 Gud'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 is
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  Speaker 2: our Sovereign God. Do you believe that God is in
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  Speaker 2: control of all things? Our sovereign God. Do you believe
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  Speaker 2: that He is sovereign over all things? Yes? Okay, we'll
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  Speaker 2: get into that in just a moment, but first I'd
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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 this day and for the privilege you have given
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  Speaker 2: to us to open up your word again and to
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  Speaker 2: open up our workweek. Father, please teach us your sovereignty.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus' name, I pray a man and a man again,
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  Speaker 2: So I am going to share from our lesson this time,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to allow my machine to do what it does.
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  Speaker 2: I call my machine mishkatoo dot o, mishikato dot oh
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  Speaker 2: shout shout out to the real mishka. But we'll get
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  Speaker 2: into that maybe at another point in time.
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  Speaker 3: God is sovereign, the youth pastor taught his middle school group.
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  Speaker 3: That means he controls everything that happens. One puzzled middle
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  Speaker 3: schooler replied, so God was in control when my dog died.
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  Speaker 3: Why would God kill my dog. Trying to answer this question,
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  Speaker 3: the youth pastor replied, that's a tough one, but sometimes
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  Speaker 3: God lets us go through hard times so that we're
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  Speaker 3: prepared for even more difficult things in the future. I
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  Speaker 3: remember how hard it was when my dog died, but
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  Speaker 3: going through that helped me deal with an even more
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  Speaker 3: difficult time later when my grandma died. Does that make sense.
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  Speaker 3: After a long pause, the middle schooler replied, so God
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  Speaker 3: killed my dog to prepare me for when he is
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  Speaker 3: going to kill my grandma. People sometimes assume that everything
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  Speaker 3: that occurs happens just as God wants it to. Whatever
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  Speaker 3: happens in the world is precisely as God wanted to
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  Speaker 3: have happened. After all, God is almighty, How then could
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  Speaker 3: anything occur that God does not want to occur? Hence,
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  Speaker 3: no matter what happens, no matter how bad it was,
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  Speaker 3: God's will, that at least is what this theology teaches.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, shout to the real Mishka Mishka May Bonner at
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  Speaker 2: the Central Jamaica Conference. Who is the best, best, best
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  Speaker 2: person that I have ever had a ride with me
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  Speaker 2: in terms of assisting with things that I do? So yeah, anyway,
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  Speaker 2: you have heard though from the Lesson study directly directly
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  Speaker 2: that there are times that people have internal conflicts like
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  Speaker 2: dissonance in our minds, trying to determine whether like God
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  Speaker 2: is fair? Is he just like what is it that
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  Speaker 2: God wants in my life? And an elder told me
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  Speaker 2: one time when I was a young elder. He said,
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  Speaker 2: he said, don't blame God for knowing everything. Do not
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  Speaker 2: blame God for knowing everything, not that he wills everything,
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  Speaker 2: not that he determines everything. So the fact that he
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  Speaker 2: knows that you fill in the blank with the thing
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  Speaker 2: that you despise the most in terms of injustice or
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  Speaker 2: in things that seem to be out of control. On
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  Speaker 2: planet Earth. Just because God knows these things doesn't mean
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  Speaker 2: that he determined these things. Just because he knows these
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  Speaker 2: things doesn't mean that he designed and ordained and wills
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  Speaker 2: these things. And You're like, but come on, Dave. You
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  Speaker 2: said that God is sovereign. You said that he is
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  Speaker 2: all powerful, Blessed be his name, And I'm like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm repeating what the scriptures say. That is absolutely right.
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  Speaker 2: But can I just say something and I want you
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  Speaker 2: all to listen keenly, and then I'll prove it to you.
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  Speaker 2: God does not always get what God wants. I need
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  Speaker 2: you to let that settle in and I need you
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  Speaker 2: not to turn away from this program. Now, do not
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  Speaker 2: let this program go off. Okay, God is not willing
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  Speaker 2: for anybody to be lost. I just need to prove
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  Speaker 2: that as quickly as possible so nobody misquotes me. I
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  Speaker 2: said God does not always get what God wants. Does
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  Speaker 2: God want you to be saved? Of course the answer
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  Speaker 2: is yes. Does he want everybody to be saved? Of
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  Speaker 2: course the answer is yes. Did Judas is Scariot choose
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  Speaker 2: to be lost? He's dead now? Judas is Scariot, the
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  Speaker 2: one who betrayed Jesus, did he choose to be lost?
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  Speaker 2: Yes he did, And so in the case of judas
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  Speaker 2: Is Scariot, God did not get what God desires. God
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  Speaker 2: is not willing that any should perish. See the Bible
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  Speaker 2: reads in two Peter, chapter three, verses eight through thirteen. Now,
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  Speaker 2: dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your
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  Speaker 2: notice that a single day is like a thousand years
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  Speaker 2: with the Lord, and a thousand years are like a
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  Speaker 2: single day. The Lord is not slow concerning his promise
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  Speaker 2: as some regard slowness, but is being patient toward you,
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  Speaker 2: because he does not wish for any to perish, but
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  Speaker 2: that all come to repentance. The reason Jesus is not
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  Speaker 2: here yet is because he wants as many people as
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  Speaker 2: possible to be saved. He knows that people are going
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  Speaker 2: to make the wrong decisions. He wants to give everybody
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  Speaker 2: ample opportunity, ample time, ample privileges to see his love
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  Speaker 2: and the contrast to the evil that comes from the enemy,
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  Speaker 2: so that everybody can be saved who is willing. But
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  Speaker 2: the fact is God does not always get what he desires.
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  Speaker 2: I think we're clear now. So God is not willing
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  Speaker 2: that anybody should perish, but that it all should come
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  Speaker 2: to repentance, but some people are going to choose to
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  Speaker 2: be lost. And so don't blame God for knowing everything,
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  Speaker 2: and do not blame God as if he determined or
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  Speaker 2: he for or day he willed every little thing on
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  Speaker 2: planet Earth. He did not foreordain or will that Eli
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  Speaker 2: would lose his connection with God. He did not foreordained,
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  Speaker 2: or intend or determine for King Saul to lose his
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  Speaker 2: connection with God. Your brother, your sister, your relatives who
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  Speaker 2: have chosen not to serve God. He did not will
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  Speaker 2: for that. He willed that we would all do what
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  Speaker 2: He has given for us to do, so that one
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  Speaker 2: day we can live in eternal bliss with Him. Now,
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  Speaker 2: God is not complicit in the way that male dominated
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  Speaker 2: society mistreats and abuses women. That is not God's will.
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  Speaker 2: And we could go down through a long list, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna sit here. What did he do to remedy
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  Speaker 2: and restore the dignity and justice in these kinds of situations?
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  Speaker 2: I'll pick one. I'll pick one. There was a woman
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  Speaker 2: who was brought to Jesus who was caught in the
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  Speaker 2: quote very act of adultery. And these wicked men whose
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  Speaker 2: hands were not clean. Tried to get Jesus to execute
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  Speaker 2: this woman through stoning, and the Bible says that he
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  Speaker 2: did some writing on the ground and acts whoever is
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  Speaker 2: bringing her, who feels like they can charge her and
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  Speaker 2: can accuse her. If they are without sin, then let
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  Speaker 2: them condemn her. And to make a long story short,
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  Speaker 2: of course, those guys scurried and scampered away, and Jesus
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  Speaker 2: left with the woman says, I do not condemn you,
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  Speaker 2: ah go and sin no more. He empowered her, He
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  Speaker 2: restored her dignity. His will was for her to have that,
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  Speaker 2: not stoning.
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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,