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, preparation day, May thirty one, twenty twenty four.
Hello, 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 in our Lesson study series
The Great Controversy our caption for today, and I want you to get this
and get this good. Don't trust the preacher, don't try the preacher.
We'll get into that in just a moment, But first i'd like to say
welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the very first time.
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This is a way that we 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 time to prepare to
connect with you in a special way on tomorrow. If we are honored for
you to spare our lives. Father, I pray that you will open up
your word to our minds today in Jesus name, I pray Amen and Damen
again. So I have a baby brother. He's not my real brother,
but it feels like he is. Right. He's my brother in the faith.
And his name is Norman, and Norman I call him Jonathan because I'm
David. So you know the David Jonathan connection. You see how that goes?
Uh. And one thing that Norman says, like he's a preacher and
teacher as well, he says, don't trust the preacher. Don't trust the
preacher like he says it while he's preaching. He says it while he's teaching
the Bible. And I ascribe to the to the same sentiment because there are
too many of us. And I'm not saying that Norman does it. I'm
not saying that I do it. But so there are so many of us
who are lying when we're preaching, or we're severely misguided. And I'm not
saying it for you to have the kind of distrust that means suspicion. That's
not what I'm saying, because I preach all the time, you see.
But what I'm saying is that our trust should be in God. Our trust
should be in the Holy Spirit teaching us what things are true from the scriptures.
In fact, the Bible writer actually spoke about it. He said that
there were some Bahreans who, when they heard the teachings of the apostles,
they would go back into the Bible, the scriptures that they had access to,
and they would determine whether the things that the apostles the preachers were teaching
them were true or no. So I'm saying, don't trust the preacher.
Trust us enough to go and examine the scriptures for yourself under the power of
the Holy Ghost, but do not take our word for it. Go back
to the Word of God and see if what we're saying is actually true.
You understand now, don't trust the preacher. And so in the last days
we understand. And not only in the last days, but especially in the
last days. The Bible teaches us that there will be false Christs and false
prophets. There will be angels, evil angels masquerading as angels of light,
and also so as ministers of righteousness. Right. And so what we want
to do is nullify that by surrendering our will to God, by yielding to
the point that when he speaks and we read the Bible, we will see
and hear what he has said, and not what people say he said.
And so in the Lesson we read that in the absence of the Bible,
testimony and their favor, many with unwearying persistence urged forgetting how the same reasoning
had employed against Christ and his apostles. Here it is, why do not
our great men, those are preachers and teachers. Huh, how come our
great men understand this? Don't understand the Sabbath question? But few believe as
you do. It cannot be that you are right and that all of the
men of learning in the world are wrong. That's an exaggeration. By the
way, there are people who actually believe the Bible know that what he said
is true concerning the holiness and sanctity of the Sabbath right and to refute.
To refute such arguments, it was needful only to cite the teachings of the
scriptures. This is why I said that earlier. Don't believe the preacher.
All we have to do is cite the scriptures. All we need to do
is see what God has said and the history of the Lord's dealings with his
people in all ages. One more, Christians of the past generations observed the
Sunday, supposing that in so doing they were keeping the Bible Sabbath. And
so we understand that there are people who love God. There are people who
love God all over the world who, for whatever reasons, did not understand
or ascribe to the truth concerning the Holy seventh day Sabbath. And so what
God is saying to us is that if we study and believe the scriptures,
if we listen for God's voice, then everything that he has to say all
truths. According to John chapter sixteen, verse thirteen, when the spirit of
truth is come, he will guide us into all truth about him. He
will guide us into all truth about ourselves and where there are gaps. Now
we have the impetus to yield our will to God, Yes, that He
will also teach us to observe all things whatsoever He commanded. Whatsoever Jesus commanded
us, and Jesus promised that lo, I will be with you always,
even to the end of the earth. Have you ever been in a position
where God revealed some things about your own character and you were like, oh,
my Lord, how did I miss that? I definitely have been in
that situation. I've been in it often. In fact, as I am
speaking to you now, I just got finished talking to God about a time,
a two year period of time of my life when I may have missed
some of the things that God was teaching me to refort find my character.
While I was going through I thought I was getting it. I was asking
him to show me and to teach me. But I realized today that I
was missing some things, and I asked God for forgiveness for missing those things.
He was teaching me some things about me and how I was to relate
to the world. I was to relate when I am under fire and in
tribulation in my own mind and based on some external forces, right, And
I said, God, please forgive me. Will you show me how to
live according to your principles? And that is all we're talking about today,
Brothers and sisters. If it's about the Seventh Day Sabbath, or if it's
about something else in our lives, we can trust God. We don't trust
preachers. We trust God to teach us. And when He shows us these
things, we can't act like we did not hear them. When He gives
us access to the truth concerning his word, we cannot act like he has
not given them. And so in Acts chapter seventeen and verse thirty, the
Bible reads and the times of this ignorance. Of course there was a specific
context. But you can apply this to your life right now. God winked,
but now commendeth all. Let me use a different translation. Let me
say it again from the net translation. Therefore, although God has overlooked such
times of ignorance, he now commands all people everywhere to repent. Was that
clear? Yes, So embrace the understanding that God's patience accommodates human ignorance.
There are times that we don't understand things, or we're slowly learning things,
And this is why even in the Old Testament system of sacrifices, God had
this continual sacrifice, this burning that happened around the clock from evening to morning,
morning to evening, so that in the event that somebody in the camp
had committed sin, they would not die immediately. Like there is grace while
we are learning, grace, while we're coming to the knowledge of the truth,
Grace while we are positioning our minds to finally repent. When David the
King had done what he did to Bethsheba, what he had done to Uriah,
and brought other people into his sinful activity for a year, he was
on the run basically and not repenting. So God gave him grace while he
was drawing him. And so God is giving us grace. But once we
are clear and this is accessible to us, God is saying we are now
responsible. Don't believe the preacher. Let me just say again, the seventh
day Sabbath is holy, whether you think so or not. And I'm thankful
that God has given us the light concerning his work. 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,