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 Thursday, December seventh, twenty twenty three. 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. God's mission,
my mission, and our caption for today is crossing a line. We'll
get into that in just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome
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and then we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank you for
giving us the privilege of opening your word again. And Father, please teach
us how holy you are and how much you love us. Thank you for
making us all the same. We are all humans who need to be saved,
and I pray God that we will see it that way. In Jesus's
name, I pray Amen and aymen again. I don't know if you realize
this or not, And really I'm just saying that for a fact, there
are some people in everywhere in the world who believe that they are better or
different than you, and you're like, but Dave, everybody's different. Like
I don't think like you, you don't think like me. You're a man,
I'm a woman. Right, You're from whatever country. I'm from whatever
country. That's not what I mean. I mean that we were created in
the image of God. Adam and Eve were created in the image of God.
We are their descendants. All of us have that in common. Okay,
Well, if you don't like that, then after the flood, like
all of us came through the line of Noah somehow, someway, we all
came from that lineage. Okay, so we're all humans. And it's like,
well, that's obvious. Day. Well, if that's obvious, why
is there racism? If that's obvious? Why is there human trafficking? If
that's obvious? Why do some people believe in evolution and that some certain subsets
of people are so period than other subsets of people. But what does that
have to do with today's lesson? I'm so glad you acts. Let's go
ahead and begin by reading from the Book of Acts. That's the Book of
Acts, chapter seventeen, and I will read beginning at verse twenty four.
And the Bible reads the God who made the world and everything in it.
So we're talking about the one true and living God, Blessed be his name,
who is Lord of heaven and Earth. Does not live in temples made
by human hands, nor is he served by human hands. As if he
needed anything. We kind of talked about this the other day. I won't
go into that today, because He himself gives life and breath to everything and
everyone. May I just say here that since God is our creator, since
God is the one who knew what was in him his mind when he made
you, then that means you're responsible to him. We are all responsible to
the one true and Living God, blessed be his name, who created us.
We keep going verse twenty six. From one man, he made every
nation. I think I said that already of every of the human race,
excuse me to inhabit the entire earth, depending determining their set times and fixed
limits of the places where they would live. So wherever you happen to be
like me, it's uh, what is it five oh four in the morning
where I am wherever you are. It may be a different time, different
time zone. But no matter what that is. You may have come from
a different culture, You may have a different native tongue, You may who
knows. There's a lot of things. You could be shorter than me,
taller than me. You could be larger in stature than I am, or
smaller in stature. But we are all created from one root person, and
every nation on the human race that would inhabit the entire earth. God said
where we would live. He gave fixed limits. You're not going to live
on Mars or Pluto. You're not going to live in the water. You're
going to live on the land, and so forth. Let me keep going.
Okay, so verse twenty six gives something very interesting. I went to
read from the SDA Bible commentary on that. Paul is stating the historical truth
that all people and consequently all nations sprang up from one common ancestor adam.
Okay, nothing to see here, folks, that's not new. The belief
was one that no Greek, especially no Athenian, was likely to accept.
This is why we need to understand context, brothers and sisters here. It
is for such the distinction between Greek and Barbarian was radical and essential. The
one was, by nature meant to be a slave of the other. What
they believed that one was to be, the Barbarian was to be the Greek's
slave. I think that there are cultures all around the world, there are
situations all around the world where there are people who believe that way. It
may not be that you're Greek and you have Barbarians. We're talking about a
long time ago but we see where the classism and racism thing has gone completely
awry on planet Earth. Let me keep reading, but there was no place
in Paul's theology for a quote superior race. Y'all can fill in the blank
there. You understand this happens today on planet Earth. Let's keep going verse
twenty seven, so that they would search for God and perhaps grope around for
him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us.
Let me just say here, have you ever felt like you couldn't find
God? Have you ever felt that because somebody said that you did not measure
up to their standard. It doesn't matter what the standard was, but they
gave one, they invented one, and they say you can't measure up,
and therefore you're less than. You are not qualified, you are not great,
you are not accepted acceptable. Well, God is saying here that there
is no superior person, no matter what the distinction is. And by the
way, he is making himself available to all who ask seek and enough huh,
even those who are not quite sure how to find God or to seek
after God. The Bible says that the heavens declare the glory of the Lord.
Yes, and all that he made display his handiwork. And in the
Book of Romans he said that all of nature is a testament of God,
and it reveals the eternal Godhead. Like so we need to understand this again
from the commentary on verse twenty seven. Might feel after him. That means
to touch and to feel, or to grow. This describes how blind people
may grow to find their way, wondering where the obstacles may be right,
to feel around, to say, okay, how can I move safely from
one point to another? But this is now for us, in our spiritual
blindness, to be groping for the knowledge of God. This is how people
find him. Okay. The altar of the unknown God was a witness that
they had not found the war the world by wisdom. They did not know
God. They did not find God by But Paul brought the assurance that the
true seeker could know God desires to be found. He is a rewarder of
them that diligently seek Him. Okay, verse twenty eight. For in Him
we live and move about and exist, as even some of your poets have
said, for we too are His offspring. I'm going to read from the
book Ministry of Healing, page one twelve. Here, through the agencies of
nature, God is working day by day, hour by hour, moment by
moment to keep us alive, to build up, and to restore us.
The power working through these agencies is the power of God. You see.
God did not wind us up and say all right, well, yeah,
let me know how it happens, whatever happens in your life, just let
me know. No, God actively keeps us alive, and he actively positions
us so we can get to know Him no matter who we are. Have
a wonderful day, 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,