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, April five, 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, and our caption for today and I want you to hear it with
an exclamation point, Satan must go. Satan, he has to go,
He has to go. We'll get into that in just a moment, but
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Father in Heaven, thank you for this day of preparation. Please kick the
devil out of our lives. Help us to cooperate with you. In Jesus'
name, I pray, Amen and a man again. So I'm going to
ask. I hope it's a rhetorical question, but really and truly it may
be something that you have to consider. So this is between you and God.
You be the judge with God's help. Do you welcome Satan into your
life? And it's like, wait a minute, why would you begin in
there? Well, there are things that we do to either welcome God or
the enemy in our lives. Right, we can't live in a relationship with
God by default because we have good intentions. We hope to pray more,
we hope to connect with God more. We hope to yield our will to
God more, and say, Okay, Lord, whatever you say for my
day that I'll do it. I intend to, I want to, I
wish to, I hope to. No So The question is, again,
do you welcome the devil into your life through gossip or not yielding your will
to God? God forbid? Do you welcome the enemy into your life through
the music and other entertainment that you see and enjoy and do it on purpose
on the YouTube channels, in your podcast listening, in the conversations that you
have and may even enjoy and welcome like a comedy that you find really funny,
when it's stuff that makes God unhappy with. Okay, you see where
I'm going Like, So do I welcome? That's the question. Do I
welcome the devil into my life? Or do I ask God to banish him
from my life? My personal life, my spiritual life, right my financial
life, my relationship life. The people that I choose to surround myself with
often determine, often determine the true answer to this question. And when I
say surround myself with, I'm not saying that when we are assisting people who
don't know God, that the answer is going the wrong direction. What I'm
saying is that there are people that we hang out with and enjoy, whose
company we enjoy, and we do activities and have conversations and make plans that
are contrary to God's will, and in that case God forbid though people are
welcoming the enemy into their lives. And so with that we have to exclaim.
Let's proclaim and confess today on this fifth day of April twenty twenty four,
that we want the devil to go like he has to go. The
same Jesus who banished the devil from heaven must banish him from our lives.
Now, let me read. Let me read now from the book The Great
Controversy, page five hundred, pages five hundred and five hundred and one.
In the banishment of Satan from heaven, God declared his justice and maintained the
honor of his throne. Is God declaring the justice his justice in your life?
And you're like, well, what is justice like? Is it pump
your fist? We need justice, we need justice? Or is it righteousness?
As the Bible teaches, right, we know that it's not just standing
up with placards and signs saying we want justice. It is the righteousness of
God that we want in our lives. We need to have holy thoughts,
we need to have holy intentions, we need to help those who are oppressed.
Yes, we have to help those women who are widows. We help
those who don't have any parents, they are orphans. And we seek that
justice, that holiness on earth in the way that God sees it in heaven.
Okay, and so let me continue the quote. But when man had
sinned through yielding to the deceptions of this apostate spirit we're talking about the enemy,
the devil, God gave an evidence of his love by yielding up his
only begotten son to die for the fallen race. So now we see that
the truth is that God loves us. He loves us because otherwise he would
have seen our injustice, our unholiness, our unrighteousness, the times that we
have welcomed the enemy into our lives. Yes, and he could have said,
well, that was their decision and then walked on by. He could
have just walked on by and said, well, that's the choice they made,
so well you make a bed, go lie in it. Uh ha.
The chickens have come home to roost. Like he could have said that.
He could have said, you sowned, you've sown those seeds, and
so you're going to reap that harvest. But instead of that, he said,
I need to give them a chance. And before there was a beginning
from eternity past. The Bible teaches us that in the eternal mind of God
was this plan of salvation. Knowing that at whatever time he was choosing to
create humans and the earth, he knew the decisions that Adam and Eve would
make. Adam in particular, Adam in particular because as by one man,
the Bible says, sin entered into the world and death by sin. So
we're talking about how, the how, the how Adam chose to go the
pathway of welcome the enemy into his life. Eve was deceived and chose the
pathway to welcome the enemy into her life. And because of this we now
we now inherit the tendency to do the same. It is a proclivity,
if you want to look that word up. It is a It's almost like
a predisposition. We are pre exposed genetically, and I'm talking about every human
being. I'm talking that crazy stuff that people talk about with evolutionary theory and
the survival of the fittest and the superior, the superior mindset of a certain
set of people that live on planet Earth to the exclusion of others. I'm
not talking about that. I'm saying, every single human being, if you
were born, if you were born of a woman, then that means that
you two brothers and sisters have a predisposition to sin, predisposition to welcome the
devil into your life. And so God loved the world so much that he
wants to eradicate that. This is why Jesus told Nicodemus, you have to
be born again. He wants to give all of us new DNA. He
wants to give all of us the ability to not only resist the devil,
but to embrace God. He wants to give us the ability to do His
will in all things, just like Jesus did when Jesus lived on planet Earth.
Let me continue to read. The mighty argument of the Cross demonstrates to
the whole universe that the course of sin which Lucifer had chosen was in no
wise chargeable upon the government of God. So we cannot blame God for the
devil's deeds. Can I just say that when things are destroyed, your homes
are destroyed, or some hailstorm happens, and they put that into insurance,
whether to cover it or not to uncover it, or to cover it or
not to cover it, and in the United States of America and other parts
of the world. They call it an act of God. All of this
destruction they call it an act of God. And I'm like, why don't
call it an act of the devil. Why is it always an act of
God? Every evil thing that happens on planet Earth, people blame God for
it. I don't want to get on my soapbox. Let me continue reading
now. In page five hundred and three, with a few moments, we
have left the Cross of Calvary. While it declares the law immutable, it
proclaims to the universe that the wages of sin is death. In the Savior's
expiring cry, it is finished. The death knell of Satan was wrung m
so the devil had to go. The devil had to go. God wants
the devil to go out of our lives. Yeah, embrace God. Let
the devil go in 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,