1
00:00:01,199 --> 00:00:05,919
Most of us eat every day,
some of us too much because yesterday's food

2
00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:10,720
is not enough to supply energy for
today's needs. Why then, do some

3
00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:15,400
of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly
manna, the word of God to keep

4
00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,120
us through today's challenges. On this
program, we are going to change all

5
00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:25,160
of that. Let's experience God's words
today and receive the power we need to

6
00:00:25,199 --> 00:00:30,839
live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome
to your Daily Portion with your host,

7
00:00:31,039 --> 00:00:34,560
author speaker, Elle David Harris.
Good morning, good morning, good morning.

8
00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:38,880
It is Monday, June seventeen,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my

9
00:00:38,960 --> 00:00:41,840
name is El David Harris. I
am your host, and this is your

10
00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:46,039
Daily Portion where we give you God's
word every single day, and today is

11
00:00:46,079 --> 00:00:51,280
no exception. We are continuing in
our Lesson study series the Great Controversy.

12
00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:58,079
Our caption for today is Sealed for
Heaven, Sealed for Heaven. We'll get

13
00:00:58,119 --> 00:01:00,759
into that in just a moment,
but first I'd like to say welcome to

14
00:01:00,799 --> 00:01:03,880
you and ask you to please go
over to your Daily Portion dot com.

15
00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:07,920
Please join our online community. I
ask you also if you want to be

16
00:01:08,239 --> 00:01:12,959
coached in your Daily Portion fashion you'll
see what that means if you go there,

17
00:01:14,799 --> 00:01:19,599
then please also click that joint button
at your Daily Portion dot com.

18
00:01:19,799 --> 00:01:23,719
This is a way that we continue
to build faith and fellowship. Let's go

19
00:01:23,719 --> 00:01:29,879
ahead and pray, and then we
will get underway. Father in Heaven,

20
00:01:29,879 --> 00:01:34,319
thank you for giving us the opportunity
to pray and to open up your word

21
00:01:34,359 --> 00:01:38,480
today. I'm asking you to please
give us the fullness of your holy spirit.

22
00:01:38,560 --> 00:01:44,000
Teach us today that you have claimed
us from before there was a beginning.

23
00:01:44,359 --> 00:01:47,879
We are yours. Help us to
live like this In Jesus's name,

24
00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:53,920
I pray, Amen and Amen again, sealed for Heaven. I love this

25
00:01:53,079 --> 00:02:00,079
caption because it gives us the outcome. God's intent for all people is that

26
00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:06,680
we live with him eternally. Now
Heaven of course, Heaven. Of course

27
00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:12,719
we're going to live there for one
thousand years after Jesus returns and takes his

28
00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:19,360
people there. But it represents an
eternal principle. If you get to heaven,

29
00:02:19,479 --> 00:02:23,599
brothers and sisters, and there's no
reason why we shouldn't. Ah.

30
00:02:23,639 --> 00:02:28,080
If you get to Heaven, then
that means that you're going to live with

31
00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:34,800
God throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity
and explore the vast expanse of the universe,

32
00:02:35,319 --> 00:02:38,520
because God's love will have already permeated
your life and you would have already

33
00:02:38,719 --> 00:02:45,159
made your final decision to experience God
throughout eternity. And of course again,

34
00:02:45,199 --> 00:02:49,319
when Jesus returns, we'll live with
him in heaven for a thousand years.

35
00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:53,879
And when those thousand years are finished, we know now that we will receive

36
00:02:53,960 --> 00:02:58,439
the earth made new as home base, with the New Jerusalem as the capital

37
00:02:58,759 --> 00:03:01,840
that will come down from God out
of heaven. Will become the capital of

38
00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:06,800
this world for sure, and I'm
thinking even the universe, but I guess

39
00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,879
we'll have to get there to see
what that will really be. But I

40
00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:15,479
believe that will also be the capital
of the universe. Okay, so now

41
00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:19,919
we have that sealed for heaven.
Now, the lesson writer is pointing out

42
00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:27,759
the specifics of the seal of God
that is in the law. The seal

43
00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:31,680
that is in the law, what
law, the Ten Commandments law, The

44
00:03:31,719 --> 00:03:38,159
seal of God that is nestled,
I will say, in the Law of

45
00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:44,479
God is the Seventh day Sabbath.
Okay, the Seal of God. We're

46
00:03:44,479 --> 00:03:47,479
going to talk about the Holy Spirit
who seals us. But let's talk about

47
00:03:47,479 --> 00:03:52,840
the seal itself. And so the
lesson writer says, here we have three

48
00:03:53,039 --> 00:04:00,919
elements of an authentic seal. The
name to whom the seal be longs the

49
00:04:00,919 --> 00:04:05,439
Lord thy God we're reading from We're
actually make an allusion to as I mentioned

50
00:04:05,479 --> 00:04:11,039
already, but now from Exodus chapter
twenty, verses eight through eleven. So

51
00:04:11,199 --> 00:04:15,240
we have the name to whom the
seal belongs. That's the Lord thy God,

52
00:04:15,639 --> 00:04:19,959
his title, the one who quote
made the heavens and the earth and

53
00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:26,800
everything else. That's the Creator.
And number three his territory heaven and earth

54
00:04:27,079 --> 00:04:31,399
see and all that in the miss
and appropriately. So the lesson writer also

55
00:04:31,439 --> 00:04:38,279
says a seal is sometimes called a
sign in the Bible Romans chapter four and

56
00:04:38,360 --> 00:04:45,279
verse eleven. The two words are
interchangeable as God's sign. We did read

57
00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:50,560
that God said that the seventh day
Sabbath is a sign that He is the

58
00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:58,000
Lord who sanctifies us or makes us
holy. Okay, and so God sign

59
00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:01,680
or seal in the heart of God's
law, the Sabbath is at the center

60
00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:09,839
of the final conflict over worship.
Okay. So now let's go a little

61
00:05:09,879 --> 00:05:14,879
bit deeper. What we want to
do is remain faithful to God, remain

62
00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:17,920
faithful to God concerning his commandments.
And it's like, oh, but Dave,

63
00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:20,600
that just sounds so legalistic. Well, I don't know about that.

64
00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:27,319
If the commandments, if the commandments
are a transcript of God's character, if

65
00:05:27,439 --> 00:05:30,920
Jesus said and he did, like, if Jesus said, if you love

66
00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:34,319
me, you will keep my commandments, then that means that it's it's not

67
00:05:34,439 --> 00:05:39,759
legalistic to want to do what God
says. It's not, absolutely not.

68
00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:44,480
And so in Revelation chapter fourteen and
verse twelve, the Bible reads, this

69
00:05:44,600 --> 00:05:51,240
requires steadfast endurance of the saints,
those who obey God's commandments and hold to

70
00:05:51,399 --> 00:05:57,959
their faith in Jesus or have the
faith of Jesus. Okay, so this

71
00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:02,399
is the patience of the saints.
These are they that keep God's commandments and

72
00:06:02,639 --> 00:06:09,439
have the faith of Jesus. So
we stay faithful to God. We remain

73
00:06:09,519 --> 00:06:15,560
faithful to God, and the measure
of our faithfulness in righteousness is God's law.

74
00:06:15,279 --> 00:06:19,360
Now we don't worry about that because
you know, God is the one

75
00:06:19,399 --> 00:06:24,279
who works his works in us.
So we're not trying to muster up the

76
00:06:24,399 --> 00:06:29,839
energy. We're not trying to make
ourselves stronger in our own abilities. No.

77
00:06:29,839 --> 00:06:33,199
No, And in fact, let's
make this point right here from Ephesians,

78
00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:36,639
chapter four and verse thirty to see
how this works. How does it

79
00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:43,079
work? Okay? The Bible reads, and do not grieve the Holy Spirit

80
00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:48,000
of God by whom you are sealed
for the day of redemption. So we're

81
00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:53,680
looking forward to the day that Jesus
Christ will redeem its people from the earth.

82
00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:57,560
And in the meantime, it's the
Holy Spirit who is sealing us.

83
00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:03,759
He is sealing us through his power
so that we remain, we remain in

84
00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:10,000
right relationship with Him. So we
don't have to worry about the commandments,

85
00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:14,959
because the commandments are a transcript of
God's character that by the way, he

86
00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:19,879
promised under the New Covenant that he
would write in our hearts and on our

87
00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:24,800
minds, so that no one would
have to tell any man, any woman,

88
00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:29,519
their neighbors to serve the Lord because
or to know the Lord. Excuse

89
00:07:29,560 --> 00:07:32,560
me, because he will introduce himself. So the New Covenant with the House

90
00:07:32,600 --> 00:07:38,399
of Israel is that he will write
his laws in our hearts, part of

91
00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:45,079
me, and on our minds.
How will that remain through the power of

92
00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:48,879
the Holy spirit. And again I
want to focus just for a moment on

93
00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:53,759
Exodus chapter twenty, verses eight through
eleven. I'll read it from the New

94
00:07:53,839 --> 00:07:59,199
English translation. Remember the Sabbath day, to set it apart as holy,

95
00:08:00,279 --> 00:08:05,800
because God already did that. For
in six days you may labor and do

96
00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:11,240
all your work. But the seventh
day is the Sabbath of the Lord,

97
00:08:11,279 --> 00:08:15,240
your God. And so when we're
working, we say, God has given

98
00:08:15,319 --> 00:08:18,000
us the strength. He has given
us the power to do this work and

99
00:08:18,079 --> 00:08:24,199
to get wealth. He has said
to cease from labor during this twenty four

100
00:08:24,240 --> 00:08:30,240
hour period from sunset Friday to sunset
on Saturday, as we call it in

101
00:08:30,399 --> 00:08:35,240
the Western world. Right. And
this is saying we respect you, and

102
00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:39,600
we'll keep what we'll keep, the
appointment that you have prescribed in scripture.

103
00:08:39,159 --> 00:08:43,600
Right, you shall not do any
work. And then the Bible continues in

104
00:08:43,639 --> 00:08:46,440
that for in six days the Lord
made the heavens and the earth, the

105
00:08:46,519 --> 00:08:50,720
sea, and all that is in
them, and rested on the seventh day.

106
00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:56,000
Therefore, the Lord blessed the Sabbath
day and set it apart as holy.

107
00:08:56,360 --> 00:09:00,879
Did not God set you apart as
holy? Brothers and sisters? The

108
00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:07,039
word Church comes from a Greek term
that means to be called out or called

109
00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:13,320
out ones. So if you're set
aside, you are called out of darkness

110
00:09:13,360 --> 00:09:18,679
into this marvelous light. And he
has given us a divine appointment that occurs

111
00:09:18,759 --> 00:09:22,600
every single week consistently, the seventh
day Sabbath. Then why would we not

112
00:09:22,720 --> 00:09:28,080
get together? Why would we not
get together? And know that these two

113
00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:33,320
coincide? And in Ezekiel, chapter
twenty and verse twelve, the Bible reads,

114
00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:37,679
I also gave them my sabbaths as
a reminder of our relationship, so

115
00:09:37,759 --> 00:09:41,679
they would know that I am the
Lord that sanctifies them. Well, make

116
00:09:41,720 --> 00:09:45,960
it a great day, be sealed
for heaven peace. Thanks for joining us

117
00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:50,480
listening. Friends. Always remember we
cannot live by bread alone, but by

118
00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:54,720
every word that comes from the mouth
of God. This has been your daily

119
00:09:54,759 --> 00:10:00,279
portion with el David Harris. Make
it a great day. Yeah,