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, July thirteen, 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 Book of Mark,
and our caption for today is controversies. Huh, controversies? Have you
ever been in a controversy before? We'll get into that in just a moment,
But first I'd like to just say welcome to everyone joining us, especially
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one of the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go
ahead and pray and get underwigh, Father and Heaven. Thank you for giving
us the opportunity to open up your word this Sabbath morning. Thank you for
giving us your word. And I'm asking you now to help us to see
the way that you see. Help us to hear and experience like you hear
in experience, at least within our sphere as humans. Please help us to
serve you with our whole hearts and Jesus name, I pray, Amen and
Amen again. Controversies, let me just say that there are some people that
just love controversy. Some people are cantankerous and just love controversy. Some people
just love to start, as we would say in Jamaica and Jamaica olipa argument
just want to just come miserable and constantly looking for contention. But what God
is saying to us is, if you're going to have a controversy, have
that controversy with the devil. Like, if you want to have a controversy,
let the enmity that God put between us and the devil, let that
stand, like we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and
against powers, and against the darkness of this world and spiritual wickedness in high
places. Like, if you want to have a controversy, controversy, have
your controversy with the devil under God. Though of course, let God deal
with that. But don't don't don't stir up. Don't stir up controversy among
people, bro Like, sister, don't stir up controversy on planet Earth with
people. Okay, yeah, it's a whole soapbox for me, But let
me go ahead and read. Let me go ahead and read from people.
Read based on something that you know, people were doing when Jesus was on
planet Earth about the Sabbath, and Jesus had to respond because these people just
had It's always something, there's always something, And so now in my frustration,
I read the Bible, Book of Mark, chapter two, beginning at
verse twenty seven, and the Bible reads, and he set unto them the
Sabbath was made for man, meaning humans, and not humans for the Sabbath.
So where goal is not to serve as some slave. We're not slaves
serving a twenty four hour period of time. We're not slaves looking for unnecessary
and difficult rules to somehow bend the backs of people and beat them because the
Sabbath somehow is an arduous, difficult time in space. No, and so
he said unto them, the Sabbath was made for man, and not man
for the Sabbath. Therefore, the son of Man is also the lord of
the Sabbath. Can I just say that again? Therefore the son of Man
is lord also of the Sabbath, is also lord of the Sabbath. So
why would you try to start an argument with the one who is the lord
of the Sabbath. It's the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. Like if
you have Jesus Christ here on planet Earth, why would you want to start
an argument with him about what he created? What the Bible says that on
this seventh day he rested, he wrested from what he had created and made
and blessed and sanctified and made it holy. Like he blessed it, he
rested on it, and he made it holy. So how in the world
can you talk to the one who did that? How can you talk to
him and tell him how this is supposed to go? That doesn't even make
sense. So, like I said, there are some people who just live
for controversy. How can you have controversy with the creator of life, the
creator in this case of the Sabbath. Well, during the days coming now
Sunday through Friday, we are going to look through different parts of the Book
of Mark and learn some lessons. I want to give a few lessons that
may intersect with some of what we'll talk about over the next coming few days,
and some also some different and new ideas not necessarily related. But we're
in the Book of Mark in the same chapter chapter two, verse one,
straight through to chapter three and verse six, and I just want to give
five lessons that I'm picking up in those passages. Okay, in the Book
of Mark, chapter two, the Book of Mark, chapter two, we
see a man who is paralyzed and inspiration says that it was based on some
things that he had done to himself. And now he has four faithful friends
who take him into the presence of God, meaning Jesus, while he's preaching
in a home, and there was no way for him to get in the
normal way, And so those men took him up to the top of the
house, pulled up the tiles or whatever it is that or whatever how it
was, and let him down right in front of Jesus like they skipped the
line. And so Jesus basically says, when he sees him, he says,
son, thy sins are forgiven. And the haters, the ones who
loved controversy, the cantankerous and miserable ones that I mentioned, wicked minded men,
they said, well, who can forgive sins? But God only.
They're in the presence of Jesus, like they know who he is. Even
the devils know who he is. We talked about that the other day yesterday.
But the Bible says that Jesus had to deal with them, and he
said, at the end of all of this, and he is now healing
the man. He said, but that ye may know verse ten of Mark
chapter two, that the son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins.
He said to the sick of the palsy, I say, unto thee
arise, take up thy bed and go thy way into Thine house. And
so Jesus shows them that he has the power to forgive sins. And he
showed them in a way. He showed them in a way that they could
understand if they were willing. And so I thank God that he ended that
controversy right there. And of course, or on the Sabbath on healing on
the Sabbath in Mark chapter three and verse four, and it says, and
he said, unto them, is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath
days? Or to do evil to save life or to kill? But they
held their peace. So there's this big discussion if he's supposed to heal somebody,
to set somebody free, like to heal somebody of a disease, to
have compassion on them. And they're saying it's not lawful to heal on the
Sabbath, and he's like, hold a hold on, hold up, pause,
hold on for a moment, hold on for a moment. Is it
lawful to moment? Is it lawful to do good on the Sabbath? So
are you trying to say that you would watch somebody in pain. You would
watch somebody imperiled, someone in danger, someone who needs to needs deliverance,
someone who needs healing. You would watch them remain that way and say,
Okay, let me wait until a boy. I hope they make it.
I hope they make it until sun's because at sunset then I can do something.
Come on now, So Jesus ends that controversy right there. Let me
continue. I'm all in my feelings. I'm all in my feelings. Let's
go. Let's go to the old wine skins here new wine skins, excuse
me. In Mark chapter two and verse twenty two, he says, and
no man put a new wine in old bottles, else the new wine would
burst the bottles and the wine would be spilt, and the bottles would be
marred. But the new wine must be put into new bottles. The bottom
line of this is some of us are so rigid that when God pours into
us, it doesn't work. We need to be pliable and receptive. Thank
it a great day, Thanks for joining us listening to 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,