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. It's the day of preparation. We are thankful,
it's the month of June. It's the twenty eighth day in twenty twenty
four. And yeah, my name is Elle 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 the final day
in this quarter's lesson the Great Controverseye. And yeah, before we begin with
prayer, I'd like to welcome everyone joining us, especially those joining us for
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way that we can continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and
pray and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven. Thank you for
giving us this new day and for the privilege that you have entrusted to us
to open your word. And I'm asking you, Father, please give us
the fullness of your holy spirit, teach us how to serve and to love
you with everything that we are, and finally, finally make our decision today
to serve you for the rest of eternity. In Jesus name, I pray,
Amen and Amen again listen. I have said to you that I am
a very particular and logical, systematic kind of guy. Mm hmmm. Whereas
I do have feelings, I also have an intellectual mind that just some things
just need to make sense to me. And eternity with God makes a lot
of sense to me. And I'm sharing that with you because eternity away from
God, meaning eternal death penalty is not sensible to me. It's not the
sensible option. Why would I choose pain and sickness throughout my lifetime and then
have to suffer the reality that I've separated myself from God and then be destroyed
in the end. Like that doesn't make no sense to me. And I
know I can speak English and I understand the rules of grammar that don't make
no sense to me full stop. Like that don't make no sense to me.
Ah, But eternal perfection at last, that makes sense to me.
And so I'm going to read heavily as we bring this quarter to a close.
I'm going to read heavily from the lesson from the book The Great Controversy,
pages six hundred, seventy seven and seventy eight, and see what or
really from six seventy five through six seventy eight, and see what God has
to say to us. Okay, And so I begin the quote there,
the wide spreading planes swell into the hills of beauty. Oh wait, this
is a positive message, and the mountains of God rear their lofty summits.
Are you seeing this in your mind? Brothers and sisters, on those peaceful
planes, when's the last time you had peace? On those peaceful plains,
beside those living streams, God's people. Are you one of God's people?
Brothers and sisters, are you one of God's people? Are you choosing today
to be one of God's people forever? Okay? So God's people, So
long pilgrims and wanderers shall find a home. Where is that home? Brothers
and sisters, I need you to type it in the tap? Where is
that home? I know some of you are typing Heaven. Well, okay,
I don't have a problem if you're speaking of it is as a principle,
But bottom line is wherever God is. Wherever God is, because we'll
go to heaven and live there for a thousand years. But after the thousand
years are finished, God is going to recreate the earth and he will fulfill
his promise as in Matthew chapter five where he said that the meek will inherit
the earth. So wherever God is, the tabernacle of God is with men.
He shall be with his people, and they shall and He shall be
their God. Right. So wherever God is, that's where your home will
be. There. Immortal minds will contemplate with never failing delight, the wonders
of creative power, the mysteries of redeeming love. Have you ever tried to
conceptualize eternity. I did it, and I had an anxiety attack when I
was young, little like little, I was trying to figure out what eternity
passed meant like never having a beginning Jesus, never having a beginning God,
our Father, the Holy Ghost, never having a beginning like eternity in the
past made my heart like go out of whack, like it was I was.
I couldn't figure it out, like it was messing with my logic.
But here the Bible says that without that that impediment to your brain, LD
Like, that impediment will go away and you'll be able to have ongoing enjoyment
and delight while considering the creative power of God. The things that you wanted
to know about the Great Barrier reef, the things that you wanted to know
about Orion's nebula and the speed of light and whether neutrinos are faster than light
or vice versa, was like physics or farce? Or is physics reality?
Like? You will be able to contemplate that. But Dave LD, you
will not be able to stop there. You will also be able to contemplate
with never failing delight, the mysteries of redeeming love. Why would you go
through so much to save just one guy me? Why would you go through
so much to save all of these people who are listening and watching. I'm
talking about you all on television, radio, on the Internet, on podcasts,
and on those little devices that are out there satellite radio. You all
are listening. How is it that God has so much love that he would
go into the farthest reaches of the world and throughout the expanse of the universe
with his power in order to just save you? Why would he do that?
And then you get to contemplate it, and your mind will open up
more and more every single day, and you'll never ever Finally, you will
never be confused, you will never get tired. You will always be able
to praise God because he chose to do this. Isn't that wonderful? Let
me continue reading. There will be no cruel, deceiving foe to tempt to
forget fullness of God. So the devil is not going to come in there
talking because he's dead forever and ever and ever, and this problem ain't gonna
happen no more. Every faculty, that is your ability to think, will
be developed, every capacity increased. You thought the artificial intelligence that we had
right before Jesus came was good and it was swift, And I admit it's
swift. I still have competitions with it. I feel like the machine can't
be smarter than me, but it is definitely faster than me. Oh my
goodness. Ah, we're humans. We are fearfully and wonderfully made. God
created us with this expansive mind. And I will not allow artificial intelligence to
outperform my intellect because God gave me this intellect. But I promise you that
thing is fast. It can churn and collect and put together data so quickly.
Ah. But finally, finally, our faculties will be fully developed and
every capacity increased. The acquirement of knowledge will not weary the mind or exhaust
the energies. May I just say this, I mentioned artificial intelligence. Do
you realize that as I'm speaking to you today, they can't use solar energy
to power the machine artificial intelligence. They can't use solar power because it's not
sufficient, and they can't continue to use the normal power grid anymore because it's
not sufficient. They have to create nuclear power plants in order to power the
machine called whatever you want to say, artificial intelligence. Well, the Bible
is saying here, I mean, the inspiration is saying here that are the
mind that God gave us based on his divine mind. Cannot be exhausted,
will not weary the mind or exhaust the energies. You'll never see a little
thing on the screen that says come back again. A lot of people are
hitting our servers right now. You'll never see hit the regenerate button because this
system is overloaded. No, No, the grandest enterprises may be carried forward,
the loftiest aspirations reached, the highest ambitions realized, and still there will
arise new heights to surmount, no new wonders to admire, new truths to
comprehend. Fresh objects will call forth the powers of the mind, soul,
and body. 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,