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
Wednesday, June twelve, 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 the Great Controversy. Our caption for today
is Identifying the Beast Part two, Identifying the Beast Part two. Before we
get into that, I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to
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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 thank for giving us the opportunity to continue the conversation. Father, and
I pray that you will give us understanding, give us the fullness of your
Holy Spirit, give us the fortitude in these days to serve you with everything
that we have and everything that we are in Jesus name, I pray,
Amen and Amen again. I just want to begin. I want to begin
like I did yesterday and I'll do it again for a couple of days.
Well, to say that, in order to get a full grasp of you're
going to have to study outside of these couple of moments that we have here.
So we will encourage you, we will give you some things to think
about, but this is something that you really need to sit down and pray
over and study deeply. Okay, So please go to Amazing Facts website,
the Amazing Facts website and look up the subject the Mark of the Beast.
There are studies, sermons, and all kinds of other resources that can help
you where that is concerned. Okay, So I'm going to show you how
to remain connected to God even while the beast is marking his people. Did
you hear me? I'm going to show you, just briefly today, how
to remain connected to God while the beast in air quotes is marking his people.
You see. I want you to remember the lyrics of one song.
And I know some people are gonna be unhappy that I use these lyrics,
but I want you to get up, stand up, don't give up the
fight. Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights, your
rights to do what to worship God and the beauty of holiness according to your
conscience. Yes, stand up, stand up for your rights to serve God
according to your conscience because you believe and the word of God. You see,
I want you to stand up and fight for your rights to only worship
God and to live like there is only one mediator between God and man.
That is the man Jesus Christ, not a person that is in the box
of an uncut confessional booth, not to some church or some body of deacons
or elders or bishops or cardinals or anything else. Right, we stand up
for our right to worship God according to what he has said. We stand
up for our rights because God gave them to us through his holy ten Commandments.
Law to continue with the Sabbath being holy in our hearts, in our
minds as an appointment, a special divine appointment where we encounter God in a
way that even when we worship God on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, even during those times while we are worshiping God,
because we worship God every day if we're one of his children, we walk
with God, we talk with God, we live with Him always on our
minds, as if we are in His visible presence. But there is a
sanctity to the holy seventh day Sabbath. I think that was redundant. There
is a sanctity to the Sabbath, and we can't remove that. So stand
up for your right to live according to this principle. Okay. And so
according to the Lesson writer, quoting from the Great Controversy Book, page five
hundred and ninety two, those who honor the Bible Sabbath will be denounced as
enemies of law and order, as breaking down the moral restraints of society.
I wish I had the time, but I gave you a resource already causing
anarchy and corruption and calling down judgments of God upon the earth. They will
be accused of disaffection toward the government. Ministers who deny the obligation of the
divine law will present from the pulpit the duty of yielding obedience to the civil
authorities as ordained of God in legislative halls and courts of justice. Commandment keepers
we're talking about God's commandments will be misrepresented and condemned. Again, Go to
Amazing Facts if you miss the beginning of this, to Amazing Facts and study
as you search for the mark of the Beast as a topic there in their
search box. Okay. And so now I'm going to give you how to
remain connected to God during the crazy crises that are coming upon the earth.
Okay. And so the first thing is to continue to commune with God.
Commune with God through his works. The Bible reads as Jesus was praying in
John chapter seventeen and verse seventeen, Sanctify them by Thy truth. Your word
is truth. So we need to dedicate some time every single day when we
wake up just studying God's word. But We're not just studying as if we
are in school. We are committing God's word to our minds and hearts so
that He can transform us and we can live according to his principles. It's
not only about the things that we keep talking about for these last few days.
It's how we treat our spouses if we're married. It's how we connect
with God when we are in a worship setting. Are we criticizing the preacher
and the singers and everything else that happens inside of that environment, or are
we connecting ourselves to God so that we can have the best experience with Him
and be transformed? Yes, how do we relate to our children? How
do we relate to people on the road that are not godly? What do
we think about when people at work seem not to be going in the right
place direction? Do we think about all kinds of evil and firing back on
them? Or are we looking for a way that we can be of service
to them when they God forbid, should lose a loved one or somehow they
are in some other kind of trial or difficulty and we can be of service
or encouragement. Representing God in real life settings, you understand when the rum
bottle is still calling your name. It's a way out from an air quote,
it's a way out from your difficulties. Are you going to connect to
God? Are you going to connect to the enemy by inebriation? And so
we study to connect with God, sanctify them that has set us aside for
a holy use by thy truth, Jesus said, Thy word is truth.
We already spoke about prayer yesterday, and we want to be faithful in worship,
the Bible reads in John chapter four and verse twenty three. But the
hour is coming and is now here when true worship are You're a true worshiper
of the Living God. Huh, blessed be his name, will worship the
Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such people to
worship him. So we engage every day in a connection so close to God
that we are doing it in spirit and in truth. Okay. And so
the Bible also reads in Hebrews chapter ten, verses twenty four and twenty five.
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good
works, not neglecting to meet together or assemble ourselves together, as the habit
of some. But encouraging one another. And all the more as you see
the day drawing near. God wants us to remain connected to Him, and
part of being connected to Him is to connect with other people. This is
why you're on this online platform. This is why you go to services where
people are worshiping God, God and the beauty of holiness. This is why
we continue to encourage ourselves with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs in these last
days, because He said to continue to come together. Ah, press together,
Press together, Press together, because there is a crisis coming and God
wants us to be unified as we go through until the end. And of
course, and of course we know that God's people overcame the devil anciently by
the blood of the lamb, and by the word of their testimony. They
love not their lives, even to the point of death. So we have
a testimony in twenty twenty four that God has been very good and we need
to live according to the principles that give us that testimony and give our lives
for God. 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,