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10 30 2025 The Prince of Peace · 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 Thursday. It's
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  Speaker 2: October thirty, 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: day and today is no exception. We are continuing in
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  Speaker 2: our lesson study series Lessons of Faith from Joshua, Lessons
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  Speaker 2: of Faith from Joshua, and our caption for today is
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  Speaker 2: the Prince of Peace Prints of Peace. Before we get
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  Speaker 2: your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of the
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  Speaker 2: ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's
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  Speaker 2: let's pray and then get underway. Father, we do thank
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  Speaker 2: you for the privilege that you have given us to
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  Speaker 2: worship you, and I'm asking you to help us to
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  Speaker 2: do this in a way that is pleasing to you,
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  Speaker 2: not something that we manufacture, something that we learn from
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  Speaker 2: the internet or from something on television like or get
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  Speaker 2: into a frenzy because of the way we feel, Father,
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  Speaker 2: help us to actually serve you and worship you in
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  Speaker 2: all things. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again,
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  Speaker 2: the Prince of Peace. I love this because I'm a
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  Speaker 2: peaceful person. I'm a peaceful person naturally, and yes I've
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  Speaker 2: allowed society to encroach upon that. When I was a
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  Speaker 2: young boy at age fourteen, I allowed society to drag
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  Speaker 2: me from my peaceful shell. But God has given us
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  Speaker 2: the prince of peace, Jesus Christ, the Prince of peace.
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  Speaker 2: There are people who love war, but Jesus is the
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  Speaker 2: prince of peace. And primarily though the issue of peace
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  Speaker 2: has to do with our connection with God, we were
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  Speaker 2: born as enemies of God, hostile toward God. Paul talks
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  Speaker 2: about that often in his writings. And the fact that
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ has come so that we can have peace,
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  Speaker 2: I am grateful because I'm tired of war. I'm tired
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  Speaker 2: of rumors of wars, and so thank God, thank God
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  Speaker 2: for the ministry that we will read now from Isaiah,
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  Speaker 2: chapter nine and verse six. The Bible says, for unto
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  Speaker 2: us a child is born, speaking of Jesus Christ. There's
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  Speaker 2: no question about this. Unto us a son is given
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  Speaker 2: and the government. I am excited about this, especially in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five now, because sometimes governments seem to go
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  Speaker 2: into weird directions where interacting with other countries is concerned.
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  Speaker 2: And the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his
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  Speaker 2: name shall be called wonderful. He's wonderful counselor do you
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  Speaker 2: need a counselor do you need someone to teach you
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  Speaker 2: the path that you should go? The Mighty God. Somehow
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  Speaker 2: we've run by that, the Mighty God. Jesus is verily
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  Speaker 2: equal to his Father in every single way, Thank God,
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  Speaker 2: the everlasting Father. He's the one who created you. John
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  Speaker 2: chapter one shows us clearly. Hebrews chapter one shows us clearly.
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  Speaker 2: The Book of Colossians, in at least two places show
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  Speaker 2: us clearly that Jesus Christ is the one who created
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  Speaker 2: you and the Prince of Peace. He's the one that
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  Speaker 2: mends the broken fence between us and God, our Father.
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  Speaker 2: And Jesus is wonderful. Jesus is the gift that the
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  Speaker 2: Father gave us, because the Father himself loves us, and
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  Speaker 2: so he gives us that way so that we can
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  Speaker 2: be adopted into the family of God, Thank God. And
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  Speaker 2: so our first life lesson. Our first lesson comes in
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  Speaker 2: from Isaiah chapter eleven, verse six. And my wife, I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure someone can know why I'm chuckling here. The Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: the wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the
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  Speaker 2: leopard shall lie down with the young goat or the kid,
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  Speaker 2: and in another place it says, and a little child
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  Speaker 2: shall lead them. And you people keep bringing that up
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  Speaker 2: when children do well in their school work or in
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  Speaker 2: church or in some other what you might consider to
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  Speaker 2: be a leadership position. Right, Yeah, well this is actually
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  Speaker 2: referencing like children leading animals. So I just want you
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  Speaker 2: to get that context. But let me stay on task.
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  Speaker 2: The lesson number one for today is God's end goal
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  Speaker 2: is peace, not perpetual war. God's end goal is peace,
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  Speaker 2: not perpetual war. The prophecies of Isaiah and Hoseaiah or
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  Speaker 2: Hostiah and Micah reveal God's true intention for humanity. It's
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  Speaker 2: always been peace. God created us to be with Him
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  Speaker 2: forever in a peaceful, loving, perpetual relationship. I'm just trying
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  Speaker 2: to find how many ways I can say everlasting and peace.
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  Speaker 2: So the Prince of Peace represents the culmination of God's
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  Speaker 2: plan to restore all creation throughout the universe from chaos
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  Speaker 2: of sin to harmony of His presence. You know, the
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  Speaker 2: Earth and all that is attached to Earth is the
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  Speaker 2: renegade planet, like our whole solar system is impacted by
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  Speaker 2: our sinfulness, right, and so justice and righteousness replace judgment
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  Speaker 2: and destruction, and even nature will be reconciled. We'll see
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  Speaker 2: these babies as they grow up in heavenly places. Finally, finally,
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  Speaker 2: when we don't have to live in the sinful situation
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  Speaker 2: where where wolves will no longer be predators, they won't
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  Speaker 2: eat lambs anymore. The leopard will lie down with the
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  Speaker 2: young goat. The leopard will not be a predator anymore.
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  Speaker 2: He'll go back to the way that is seen in Genesis,
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  Speaker 2: where they were all I wouldn't say vegetarian, but that's
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  Speaker 2: for the wrong species. Maybe herbivores, maybe herbivores. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what they'll be called, but they won't be eating
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  Speaker 2: other animals anymore. They will no longer be predators. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm grateful, and the Bible says, and a little child
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  Speaker 2: shall lead them, Thank God. And so for me, the
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  Speaker 2: action step is to pray for peace that only Christ
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  Speaker 2: can give. His kingdom begins in my heart. Remember God's
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  Speaker 2: will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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  Speaker 2: Let that be in your heart first, before it rains
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  Speaker 2: all over the earth. God's peace be upon you. Blessed
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  Speaker 2: be his name now lessen. Number two. God wins through
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  Speaker 2: peace he wins through peace. In tewod Kings, chapter six
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  Speaker 2: and verse twenty two, we have one example, and he answered,
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  Speaker 2: thou shalt not smite them. What dost thou smite those
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  Speaker 2: whom thou hast taken captive with a sword and with
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  Speaker 2: thy bow. Set bread and water before them, and they
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  Speaker 2: may eat and drink and go to their master. And
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  Speaker 2: the story of Elisha we see we see the blinded
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  Speaker 2: Syrian army shows how God's victories often come without violence,
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  Speaker 2: surrounded by heavenly armies. Elisha chose mercy over massacre by
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  Speaker 2: feeding his enemies. We see this in the New Testament.
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  Speaker 2: God talked about feeding even our enemies. He revealed God's heart.
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  Speaker 2: He's a god who conquers through compassion. That's the goal. Really.
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  Speaker 2: The Syrians left in peace because they had tasted or
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  Speaker 2: experienced the grace of God, and so our lesson or
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  Speaker 2: action step in this case is to respond to opposition
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  Speaker 2: with kindness. I wear a shirt, especially when I am traveling.
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  Speaker 2: I have multiple versions of it. It just says two words,
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  Speaker 2: be kind, be kind. Every act of peace reveals God's
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  Speaker 2: greater power over conflict. Be kind, be kind at all costs,
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  Speaker 2: be kind and I know you all. Some of you
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  Speaker 2: were thinking up all kinds of ways to twist this
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  Speaker 2: thing and say sometimes it's not possible. But really, Christ's
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  Speaker 2: followers are called to be peacemakers in wherever it lies
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  Speaker 2: unto us. That's lesson number three. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
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  Speaker 1: Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that comes from the mouth of God. This
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  Speaker 1: has been your daily portion with El David Harris. Make
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  Speaker 1: it a great day. Yeah,