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 thirty, 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 the Great Controversy.
Our caption for today is Enlightened by the Spirit, enlightened by let me
add the Holy Spirit. Yeah, we'll get into that in just a moment,
But first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to please
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then it would make your devices go crazy, so I won't say their names,
right, But I'm grateful because that just means that God is more interested
in saving people than people are interested in being lost. Can I just say
that again? God is more interested in saving you than humans are in being
lost. And really we're just one great decision and multiple other decison away from
being in right relationship with God. So today may be your day. If
you've not already decided to follow God. Go ahead. Today is today?
Why wait? Like, what are we waiting for? Let's go ahead and
pray and then we will get underway. Father in heaven, thank you for
today. You've only given us this moment. Please help us to maximize it.
Please teach us to love you and be enlightened by your Holy Spirit.
In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again now let me ask
you a question. You don't necessarily need to confess this one, but are
you Are you afraid of the dark? Is there anybody here that's afraid of
the dark. Now, I'm a grown man. I'm a grown man.
I'm at least a half a century old. Doesn't that sound ominous, right,
I'm not afraid of the dark. That's silly, right. Well,
But then again, like I remember moving out into the country. That I
mean the rural area, a rural area in West Virginia, many many years
ago before we moved to another country, right, And yeah, being a
city boy, I'd never experienced true darkness, even at night time, there's
always something on. And then yeah, I went outside when I lived in
West Virginia and I realized, WHOA, Like, it can actually get dark
and there's no street light, there's nothing out there. If the sun or
excuse me, if the moon is not shining that night, or the stars
are not bright, It's like, whoa, this is crazy, this is
really dark. I'm not afraid of guns and gunmen. I'm not afraid of
the things that happen in urban society. But when the wind breeze moved a
little bit and the trees started flowing. I had to ask myself, like,
are you a man or a mouse? Like? Why are you worrying
about stuff you can't see? But I say all of that in jest.
It's true. But I say that in jest because sometimes we are stumbling in
darkness, sincerely, unnecessarily. When the Holy Spirit is available to guide us
into all truth and to lead us into the path of righteousness to Jesus,
the light of the world, sometimes we stumble in darkness anyway, you see.
And so let's go ahead and begin with the Bible Book of John,
chapter fourteen and verse twenty six, where it reads but the comforter, or
we could say, advocate, which is the Holy Spirit whom the Father will
send in my name? Of course Jesus is speaking. He shall teach you
all things. So I'm saying to you, brothers and sisters, we don't
need to stumble around in the darkness. We don't have to be afraid of
our own shadow. We don't have to be wondering whoa what is that over
there shaken in the trees. No, when life is weird and we are
humans, all we need to do is yield our will to God and let
the Holy Spirit guide us into all things and bring, according to the scriptures,
all things to your remembrance what I have said to you. And so
Jesus assures us that the Holy Spirit serves as our teacher. He's the one
that guides us if we want to say, into the truths that Jesus would
have taught while he was on planet Earth, and of course everything that the
Holy Spirit inspired those Holy Men of God to put in the scriptures. Okay,
and so we move now to John chapter sixteen. And you've heard me
quote this one many many times, but let me read it again. Howbeit,
when he the Spirit of Truth, is come, he will guide you
into all truth, all truth about what Dave Well, I am so glad
you asked the Holy Spirit guides us into the truth about God and the truth
about us. I don't want to get into a big theological discussion, but
the theologians heard exactly what I was saying because of the way that this text
is actually written in the original language. The truth about me is that I'm
miserable, poor, blind, naked, don't even know it. I'm carnal,
sold under sin. I came forth from my mother's wombs, speaking lies
right. I am born in sin, shapen in iniquity. That is my
natural self. Like hiding in the bushes, I'm naked. I hid myself
because I was afraid, like Adam. That's my natural reality, my first
birth reality. Well, what is the truth about about God? The truth
is that God is holy, just and good at all times. Yes,
he's the Lord, the Lord God. He is holy and righteous and merciful.
But he would also in no wise clear the guilty, you see.
So God loves us even though we are horrible on our own. And that
truth is transformative. God knows everything about you, and yet he still loves
you. He guide you in the truth about that reality so that he can
lead us, lead you into a right relationship with Him, so that I
cannot have to be his miserable, poor, blind, naked and not even
know it. Where I can be not any longer a miserable sinner, but
a holy saint. You see. So God wants to transform us, and
he sends the spirit. And guess what. The Spirit doesn't speak of himself,
But whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak, and he will
show you things to come. So the Holy Spirit of truth actively guides everybody
who yields our will to him, every believer into the truth of God's Word,
the truth of how to live a godly life in these last days,
the truth about how to help other people get into a right connection with God.
Now. In the Bible Book of Two Peter, chapter one and verse
twenty one, we read that the prophecy came not in old time by the
will of man, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by
the Holy Gold. There are people who try to interpret the Word by themselves,
instead of recognizing the fact that God breathed, he inspired, He breathed,
He inspired his word in the people that He gave to write the Word
of God as we know it today. He inspired them. And therefore that
same power, that same enliving breath, or in living breath, like that
breath, that power that comes from God, just as God breathed into Adam's
nostrils and he became a living soul, that kind of power animates our lives
today. Yes, the same one who breathed the scriptures can breathe into our
lives so that we begin to live the scriptures. And so and every breath
that you take, I want you to remember that the Holy Spirit is the
one who was guiding you, yes, And that the Bible was authored by
through the Holy Spirit, and he used holy men, that he made holy
Yes. But these are the words of God. And when we know this,
then we don't misinterpret that, we don't make up our own way of
communicating that. We ask God, what would you have us to say?
How would you help us? How would you have us to help other individuals
to live in the paths of your word? And then having done this,
we know that God is with us. And so many of those reformers we
talked about why Cliff, we talked about the Walden scenes. John Knox is
the one that we're mentioning today and others. Those individuals knew that the Holy
Spirit was the one to give them enlightenment, and so we must live in
that spirit today, enlightened by the truth of God's Word. 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,