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 Wednesday, April seventeen, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
nam 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 under the principle the
Great Controversy. Our caption for today is human reasoning apart from Scripture. Oh,
human reasoning apart from scripture. 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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we continue to build faith and fellowship, brothers and sisters. I don't know
if you realize this, but there are tens of thousands of you who are
watching and listening every day, actually more than that, and I'm thankful because
God is bringing his people together in these small groups. I'll call this a
small group because there are millions and millions and millions and millions and multiple millions
of people on the earth. But He is bringing his small groups of people
together so that just like the Disciples, just like the Apostles, from their
small vantage point, they were able to change the world. We are doing
the very same thing under the guidance of the power of the Holy Ghost.
In twenty twenty four. You understand, this little program has been on since
about twenty sixteen seventeen in the way that it is now, and we have
grown two hundred radio stations, come on thirty platforms online. This is a
privilege and I need you to see, like the song that we heard when
we were young, brighten the corner where you are. I want you to
see yourself as one of the people I don't care where you are. Papua
and New Guinea, you're in Nigeria, you are in Australia, you are
in the United States of America, Jamaica, Land, We love Guyana.
It doesn't matter where you are. I need you to see yourself as one
of the people who are hastening the coming of Jesus Christ. You understand we're
going with this. Yes, good, Let's go ahead and pray and then
we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for these words that
you've entrusted to us. Teach us to live them in Jesus' name. I
pray, Amen and a men again. You know, I think part of
the problem with humans, besides us being humans, is that we think too
highly of ourselves. Some of us think of ourselves too highly, and and
some of us think that we're more intelligent than we actually are. Now.
Now, don't get me wrong, listen, listen. I'm not saying that
we're not intelligent in an earthly way. Mm hmm. Some of you misheard
me already. I'm not trying to give you a complex and say that you're
unintelligent. I'm not trying to limit you. In my mind, the sky
is not even the limit. But let me say this spiritually, if we
don't humble ourselves before God, listening and listening to and doing what He says,
then we are foolish. That's all I'm saying. So the fool in
his or her own heart, there is no God right fools despise wisdom from
God's word and instruction. These are things that God has said, and so
we don't want to be caught into the quagmire of being that way. In
fact, in the Book of Proverbs, the wisest man who had ever lived
wrote these words, there is a way that seems right to a man,
but the end thereof are the ways of death. Let me read it in
another translation, there is a way that seems right to a person, but
its end is the way that leads to death. How many times have we
made decisions that are actually destructive in guiding us down the pathway to destruction?
Like, how many times have we been in that situation? Brothers and sisters.
Let's just be honest here. So the fact is the fact is that
God is preparing our minds to say, if you will just abiden me and
my word abides in you, then you can ask what you will. And
in fact, if you lack wisdom and you ask God, he will give
it to you. It will be done unto you. So human reasoning apart
from scripture, leads to what death. It's as simple as that. Not
trying to give you a complex. In fact, I'm trying to set your
feet in the way that God is wanting to set my feet on the path
to righteousness. The book says here in the Book of Judges, the Book
of Judges, please just run quickly with me to the Book of Judges,
chapter twenty one and verse twenty five, and the Bible reads, that's the
last passage in that book, in that chapter. In those days there was
no king in Israel. Every man did with what he thought right in his
own eyes. Again, in those days Israel had no king. Every person
did what he considered to be right. Now, let me just ask you
a question. Is it rhetorical? Is it a real question? I don't
know what happens when we just lean to our own understanding, when we think
that we have all the answers. Have you ever been in a situation like
I'm a coach. I'm a coach. I coach a lot of folks every
day. And what I realize about human nature is that when people are invested,
and you can fill in the blank about what that means, but when
people are invested, they are more receptive than people who are not. People
that don't need to do anything, like people who are just in an environment
because you know, it's a habit. You go to church every day,
or you are being mentored by somebody who holds you under their wing, but
you didn't really kind of put buy into it. You're just there because they
seem to be kind or whatever. Yeah, people who are not invested are
usually to their own understanding, they're not invested in their own growth. But
people who are yielding to God's will, now let's make it spiritual, who
are fully invested in the community of faith and determined to live according to God's
principles. When God brings his word, we face the truth about ourselves and
the truth about God. The truth about ourselves is that we are miserable,
poor, blind, and naked spiritually speaking, and we need to be transformed
like we're cardinals sold under sin. And the truth is that God is love.
He is full of truth, full of grace, full of mercy,
and he is communicating that through his word to us, so we can live
it. And it says here in Isaiah chapter fifty three and verse six that
all of us have wandered off like sheep. Each of us have strayed off
his own path. But the Lord has caused the sin or iniquity of us
all to attack him, meaning Jesus. Let me read it in the familiar
way. All we, like sheep, have gone astray. We have turned
everyone to his own way. So we need to humble ourselves and know that
all of us have had difficulty. All of us have turned our way from
God at some point in our lives. Yes, and the Lord hath laid
on him meaning Christ. He was the Messiah, the lamb of God,
being referenced here in the book of Isaiah. He has laid on Jesus the
iniquity of us. All he was oppressed and afflicted for our benefit. He
took the punishment brothers and sisters, that we deserve so that we can live
the life and the eternal reward that Jesus reserve deserves. And therefore, whatever
it is that he says to us, then we should esteem it as more
than our necessary food hmhm. We should relish the words of his mouth.
A few years ago, the lesson writer says, my wife and I decided
to do some hiking in the forest near a hotel where we were staying for
the night. Typically, I am fairly good at directions, and after hiking
for about an hour or so, taking various trails, I was quite confident
that I would find our way back to the little with little difficulty, but
soon found that we were hopelessly lost in the forest. And then, of
course the story continues. Discovering someone who knew the way and someone who had
the ability to get us back to our destination made all of the difference for
us. Listen, Jesus is the way, he's the truth, and he's
the life. Follow him fully and follow his words and you'll never get lost.
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,