Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, because yesterday's
food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do
some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change
all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need
to live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good
morning. It is Friday, October twenty seven, twenty twenty three. Hello,
my name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this
is your Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day, and
today is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series. God's
mission, my mission, and our caption for today is rescue the perishing.
Rescue the perishing. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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and pray and then get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving
us this new morning and for the privilege we have to pray. Please give
us the spirit of Christ in rescuing the perishing. In Jesus name, I
pray, Amen and Amen again. You know, the Bible says very clearly
that Jesus came to seek and to save that which was lost. It also
says in the Book of Matthew the first chapter that Jesus came to save his
people from their sins, and so rescuing the perishing is an overarching theme where
God is concerned. Remember that passage in John chapter three and verse sixteen.
Some of us have taken it for granted because we've said it a million times.
It says, for God's so loved the world that he gave his only
begotten son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world,
but that the world through him might be saved. And I'm thankful that God
has invested so much in saving me. So what little I have I need
to dedicate to Him so that I can at least hope for someone else to
be saved through my influence. That's the case with you. God said that
through Paul. He said that for we give, He's given us. He's
given us the ministry of reconciliation. Like freely we have received, Jesus said,
freely, we have the opportunity to give. I'm going with just a
little bit from the hymn number three hundred and sixty seven in the Seven Day
Adventist hymnal and it reads, I'm not going to sing it today. Rescue
the perishing, care for the dying, Snatch them in pity from sin and
the grave weep or the erring one, lift up the fallen, tell them
that Jesus. Tell them of Jesus the Mighty to save, Rescue the perishing,
care for the dying. Jesus is merciful, Jesus will save. And
then the final final stands up rescue the perishing. Duty demands it. Strength
for thy labor, the Lord will provide. Back to the narrow way,
patiently win them. Tell a poor wanderer, a savior has died. Rescue
the perishing. Can you hear it? Brothers and sisters, care for the
dying. Jesus is merciful. Jesus will save, and that is our privilege.
I'm reading now from the book Patriarchs and Profits, page one hundred and
forty, about the man who had that moniker, if you want to say,
it was his focus when he was interceding for the inhabitants of Sodom and
Gomorrah Abraham, and it reads us and I quote love for perishing souls inspired
Abraham's prayer. While he loathed the sins of that corrupt city, he desired
that the sinners might be saved. His deep interest for Sodom shows the anxiety
that we should feel for the impenitent. Did you get that? Let me
go back, Let me go back. His deep interest for Sodom shows the
anxiety that we should feel for the impenitent. And you're like, but Dave.
The Bible says that we are to be anxious for nothing, but in
everything give thanks. What is the will of God concerning us? Well,
that's true. We're not worried about ourselves because we know God It's taken care
of us. Right. Yeah, be not dismayed with air. Betide God
will take care of you. But there are people who are dying. Can
you see somebody bobbing up and down in a tumultuous storm in the sea and
not think God, please deliver them? When you feel that you are so
far from them, And even if you could jump into the raging sea and
swim out to them, you wonder, can I do I have the capability
to do anything to save this person who is about to drown? And so
when we see people who are not willing to yield their will to God,
they are in a tumultuous storm, they are drowning, they aren't taking on
water, and it's not looking good. And so in those moments we should
be pressing God, pressing God giving him the permission. If you want to
say, to show mercy to them, we are interceding for them. If
you ever walk the streets, just going about your daily duties, going to
the supermarket, going to school, to work, to play, and then
see people that you can see obviously are not connected to God. You know,
I'm going to make it a commitment in my mind that if I am
going to the gym, that I need to be praying for people in my
mind, in my mind praying, God, spare this one from the sins
that so easily beset her. Say this one, God from the sins that
so easily beset him, and then see what God will do. Yes,
And so we should cherish hatred for sin, but pity and love for the
sinner. And you see the difference there, brothers and sisters. There are
times that you hear of the sinful lifestyles of people that you encounter. Are
you hating them or are you hating the sin? Are you showing love to
them? Are you showing love for the sin? You see, there is
a fine line. There are times that we are in company of people who
are impenitent, They are not yielding their will to God, and we have
to make a decision. Will we do as they do in order to hopefully
quote win them to Christ? And of course the obvious answer is no.
And okay, we'll look at it from another perspective, when those individuals are
perishing, should we just walk on by and say, oh, well,
I cannot keep company with sinners. Well, of course, the answer obviously
again is no. So we keep company with those individuals in order to be
an influence for holiness, an influence for God, an opportunity for us to
point them in the direction of Christ through our interaction. God said, let
your light so shine, brothers and sisters, before people, that they may
see your good works. And then glorify your Father, which is in heaven.
Abraham. According to the quote, every day the probation the every day,
the probation of some is closing. Every hour. Some are passing beyond
the reach of mercy. And where are the voices of warning and entreaty to
bid the sinner flee from his from this fearful doom? Where are the hands
stretched out to draw him back from death? Where are those who, with
humility and persevering faith, are pleading with God for him? Let me continue
the quote. The spirit of Abraham was the spirit of Christ. Did you
get that? That can be your testimony right now, brothers and sisters.
The spirit of Abraham was the spirit of Christ, the son of God,
it is himself the great intercessor on sinner's behalf. He who has paid the
price for its redemption, shows the worth of the human soul with an antagonism
into evil. Excuse me, such can exist only in a nature spotlessly pure
christ manifested toward the sinner of love, which in finite goodness alone could conceive.
Rescue the perishing brothers and sisters, and call to God for the dying,
because Jesus is merciful and He's ready to save. Have a wonderful day,
peasts. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot
live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of
God. This has been your daily portion with l David Harris. Make it
a great day. Yeah,