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 Sabbath already, yap, It's Sabbath, April six,
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. This is our second week
in our Lessons study series the Great Controversy, and our caption for today is
the central issue? All right? You want to know what it is?
Love or selfishness? What is the central issue, y'all? The love or
selfishness. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd like
to say welcome to you and ask you to go over to your Daily Portion
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that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
and then we will get underway. Bother and Heaven. Thank you for this
new morning and for the privilege you have given us to consider your word again.
Please Lord, help us not to just simply consider it or think about
it, but to live your word, to be full of your word,
and to be an example to people who don't know your word so they can
be introduced to Jesus Christ, the ultimate word. I pray now that we
will. We will yield our will to you today in Jesus' name. I
pray Amen. Then amen again. The central issue love or selfishness. Okay,
And so our text comes in from the Book of Isaiah, the Book
of Isaiah, chapter forty one, and I will read verse ten. The
Bible reads, and this is one that I really love. I can hear
the song we used to sing this song years ago. Fear not, for
I am with you. Be not dismayed. Why not, For I am
your God. I will strengthen you. This is God speaking. Yes,
I will help you. I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
I need to read it again. Please fear not, for I am with
you. Be not dismayed, for I am thy God. I will strengthen
you. God will strengthen you. Yes, I will keep you. I
will help you. Who will help you? God will help you. I
will uphold you with my righteous right hand. There are so many people who
are falling, falling, falling, falling and can't get up. And I'm
not trying to make a joke. I'm saying there are people who are falling
and cannot get up. Falling for the enemy's traps, Falling for those evil
deceptions that he has brought against us that make us to minimize our family members.
Falling for all of those wicked desires that cause people to cheat people in
business. Falling for the lie that our spouses are not enough, which causes
people to step out, step out, and to do things with people that
are not our spouses, like commit adultery. What people are falling for the
okie dough like. The devil has so many deceptions that people are falling for.
And God is saying, no, don't do that. I'm with you.
You don't have to be dismayed because I'm your God. Like I'm going
to strengthen you. When you are feeling weak and you feel like like today
has to be my last day, like my life must end today. No,
I will strengthen you. Hm when you feel like no one is listening,
because maybe it's true. Maybe when you reached out to your friend,
your friend didn't have enough time for you. Huh ah. When you feel
like there is nobody there for you, Jesus says God, our Father says,
through the power of the Holy Spirit. God says, I will help
you when you have more month than money and you are in despair. I
will help you. When your children seem to have lost their mind. God
is saying, I will help you, and I will uphold you with my
righteous right hand. When injustice is all around you you don't know how to
get through those terrible dark valleys. God is saying that he's going to lift
you up and he's going to hold you up with his righteous right hand.
I think we have a good foundation here, so there is no fear in
love, brothers and sisters, because the Bible says, fear thou not,
I am with thee. Remember that song yes, So you don't have to
fear because the God of Love is for you. Okay. The Bible says
there is no fear in love because perfect love casts out fear. Yes,
fear hath torment, but God's love, God's love strengthens us and gives us
boldness. John said in the Day of Judgment, you understand we can know
that as he is, Jesus is. That is as he is, so
are we in the world. So the fact that Jesus is alive. When
I say alive, I'm talking about he is the source of all life.
Yes, he came through the portals of the tomb when he took on human
flesh, and he took up his life again like he promised that he would
that Sunday morning, and he had all power in his hands. He had
the keys to hell, death and the grave. And now victory can be
ours. And so as he is victorious, so can we be victorious.
Yes, because he has the keys to death. Now we can live eternally
with God. One day, when Jesus does return, it's going to stick
that key in the lock, if you want to say, He's going to
open it up, open up the portals to eternity with us. Yes,
we get a glimpse. Now, we get a glimpse of the sweet bye
and by now. But then, finally, we will no longer feel the
physical pain that we feel now these days. We will no longer have to
sleep anymore, because we will not get tired. We will run and not
get tired. You understand, we will no longer be limited by the human
predicament. We will no longer be tempted by sin, because sin will not
pardon me, have no dominion at all, and it will no longer rise.
It will not rise a second time. That affliction of sin will not
rise a second time. And therefore, as he is, so are we.
And now we can be perfected in love. Fear not why, because
I'm with you? Okay, So the lesson writer says this. Suppose you
are a herdsman tending to your goats in the hillsides of the Mount of Olives,
overlooking the city of Jerusalem. You hear voices. Immediately you recognize the
voice of Jesus. As the setting sun gleams off the temple and reflects the
snowy whiteness off its magnificent marvel walls. Jesus emphatically states assuredly, I say
to you, not one stone shall be left here upon another, then that
shall not be thrown down. And you're like, well, hold on,
hold on, hold on, And that obviously is from the Bible from Matthew
chapter twenty four and verse two. What do you mean by as I look
at this magnificent structure that was in building for decades, are you saying?
What do you mean by it's not going to be here anymore? What do
you mean by it's not going to be here? It's going to be destroyed?
There will be no stone left upon another? What do you mean?
This is like the This is like the spiritual Titanic. It cannot sink a
w a amen, Wait the tit the Titanic did sink. This is like
Babylon, the Babel Babel Tower of babel Ah that they built with all of
their human ingenuity to avert any destruction that God could think of where floods are
concerned. Even though God promised and signified in the clouds with a bow that
he would not destroy the earth again by water. Oh amen, the Tower
of Babel was destroyed too. Well. Why why why in this case,
why would the edifice that represented the presence of God, that was to be
a house of prayer for all people. Why would Jesus say that it'll be
thrown down? That is because God knew. Jesus knew that. Unfortunately,
the people of God would have gone too far and rejecting him. People of
God would have gone so far in disrespecting the image of God in their lives
and misrepresenting Him in the earth, and not accepting his entreaties, not accepting
his warnings through the prophets, in fact, to the degree that they would
destroy the prophets. Jesus is saying all that you think, all of your
human ingenuity, all that represents, whatever you think is good, I'm going
to destroy it. And yeay he indeed did. The people have an opportunity
today to live for God and to live according to His principles. 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,