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 Tuesday, April two, twenty twenty four. 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 through the Great Controversy.
Our caption for today is planet Earth becomes involved. Earth becomes involved And
you want to say, well, involved in what? Yes, we'll get
into that in just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to
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that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and
see what God has to say to us. Father, thank you for giving
us the opportunity to pray. And I'm asking you to please give us understanding
of your will and then for us to have the will to do of your
good pleasure. Please fill us with your Holy spirit in Jesus name, I
pray, Amen and Amen again. All right, and so again the caption
planet Earth becomes involved. I have said to you already that sin didn't just
happen in Adam and Eve, right, it didn't just impact them. It
also impacted the earth. There are things that we see in our weather patterns.
There are things that we see in how things grow or don't grow,
how the mountains are. We see things in the waters and the seas,
and in animal behavior we see that well, there are predators. Now,
when God created the animals, there were no predators. They ate like elephants
eat. If you want to say, yeah, but now we have a
problem, and so we're going to talk about that. But see if there
is any grace in the situation for us to grow from. Okay, and
so there's problem on planet Earth. Okay. So according to the lesson writer,
when God created the Earth, he created it perfect. And I think
that there is no argument here on that, not from people who believe God.
The Bible says that he saw, meaning God, he saw that everything
that he had made indeed was good, good, very good. This is
what the account is in the Book of Genesis chapter one. There was no
stain of sin or evil anywhere. And let me just add here un planet
Earth. Because Lucifer had war with God. Lucifer lost, he became the
devil. Of course in that process he chose. By the time he was
warring with God, he had lost his Son of the Morning status, right,
and now there's war in heaven. God kicks him and his evil angels
out of heaven and they're here. But the human race hadn't chosen to follow
him, well, not yet. But the lesson writer says he gave Adam
and Eve the same freedom of choice he had given to Lucifer. He didn't
want robot on Earth anymore than he wanted robots in heaven. And so what
I want to be sure of is that you're not reading this, but this
butt like there was no stain of sin or evil anywhere on planet Earth.
But we don't want to see that as a contrast, like everything was good
but God gave free will. That's not what we want to see. But
we want to see, however, that now as the story is being told,
there is a decision for Adam and Eve to make. They have to
decide whether they are going to follow God fully as they have been created to
do, as they had done all the time up until this point, or
make a decision to go the other way like Lucifer and his evil angels had
done. Okay, And so there was this tree of the knowledge of good
and evil. So love, I'll call this absolute love, meaning God,
because the Bible says that God is love. Love gives humans the ability to
choose in the same way that he gave angels the abilities to choose. Okay,
And so now we're going to look at a contrast between what God said
and what the devil said, and now we will have the decision making process
of humankind. Here we go. In Genesis chapter two, verse fifteen,
the Bible reads, and the Lord God took the man and put him into
the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. So God gave
Adam responsibility. He gave him the privilege of work and labor, meaningful labor.
And the Bible says and the Lord God commanded him saying, of the
tree of the garden, of every tree, excuse me, of the garden,
thou mayest freely eat. I want you to hear how this works.
Of every tree of the garden you may eat except one. Okay ah.
And it says here but verse seventeen, of the Tree of the Knowledge of
good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it, for in the day
that thou eatst thereof thou shalt surely die. So God gave him work,
He gave him meaningful labor. If you want to say, maybe that's the
way to say it. He gave him responsibility, and of course he gave
him his love. So there's no problem here, nothing to see here.
And he also now gave him the ability to see like in real words,
God is saying, I'm giving you an opportunity to continue along this beautiful pathway
that you have with me. You are perfect. The earth is perfect.
When I have given to you is perfect. Even this decision making process at
this point of your life is perfect, and I want you to keep it
that way, okay, And then the devil shows up. Long story short,
we see now we see that by the time let me go to Genesis
after three, by the time the devil shows up in the garden, something
goes very wrong. Beginning at verse one. Now the serpent was more subtle
than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he
said, unto the woman, yea hath God said, now we're seeing the
subtlety right. Watch where he tries to twist God's words. And he said,
did God say that ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Wait a minute, The Bible said you may eat from every tree of
the garden except one. So he twists it. Okay. And the woman
said, unto the serpent, we may eat from the tree or the fruit
of the tree of the God, or the trees of the garden. But
of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden.
God said, ye shall not eat it. That's correct. Then she adds
something, neither shall ye touch it lest ye die? And the serpent said,
unto the woman, ye shall not surely die. So God said,
we're walking now into these contrasts, what did God say? What did the
enemy say? See? God said by his action that he loves them.
Right. He gave them every possible thing for their comfort, every possible thing
for their continued growth imperfection, every possible thing to demonstrate his love and protective
care over them. And he gave them guidance that this enemy would come and
that they should make a specific decision. Even though they already innately had the
ability to choose right, God still gave him a bonus and told them exactly
what their decision should be if they were going to continue to follow him.
Now, now she sees, wait a minute, the devil says this,
or this being says this, and then the serpent says, wait a minute,
God doth know that ye will eat if you eat this, that when
you do that, your eyes will be open. Wait a minute. That's
not what God said, you shall be as God's Wait a minute, that's
not what God said. Knowing good and evil, God didn't say, this
is what I want for you, and then I'm gonna hide it like no,
Wait a minute. And then the woman said she saw the tree was
good for food. Now her perspective changes because she's beginning to accept the deception,
and that it was pleasant to the eyes. A tree that desired to
make one wise, sin does not make us wiser. She did eat,
gave her husband, and he did eat. So the minute that Eve accepted
the counterfeit and the deception and Adam made his choice to sin, then there
was a problem talk about that one planet Earth peace. 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 el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,