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 Tuesday, March five, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
name is El David Harris. I am your host. That just spilled water
all over my keyboard. Right well, I'm getting prepared for you, and
this is your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,
but today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson study through the
Book of Psalms, and our caption for today is remembering history and repentance.
Remember history and repentance. We'll get into that in just a moment, but
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and pray, and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven. Thank
you for this new day and for the privilege we have to open up your
word again. Please please teach us, Father how to turn our heart toward
you. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and amen again. Yes,
if I gave you an opportunity to define repentance, and I know that
sounds so like I don't know, it sounds so dry, like define repentance,
okay, number two. But if you were to define it, what
would you say that it is? Please? What would you say? Repentance
is? Go ahead and type it in the chat. What is repentance?
Yes, okay, let's give you another moment. What is repentance? Okay?
So repentance is turning the shoulder. So if I'm going east, if
I'm walking in an easterly direction, and I turn my shoulder and I go
toward the west. That is partially what repentance is. If I'm walking toward
sin, I'm doing and thinking in ways that God is not pleased, Yes,
and then I turn the shoulder. That is part of what repentance is.
The other part that is critical is it's godly sorrow for sin, not
just regret because we've gotten caught in the act of something that is undesirable and
we just feel like, wow, the penalty is too great, and so
yeah, let me repent. No no, no, no, no no.
It's godly sorrow for sin. And you're like, well, how do
I get that? Romans chapter two and verse four basically says that repentance is
a gift from God. God giveth repentance to his people, So we should
not take that for granted. If you can have godly sorrow for sin,
it is because God put that inside of your bosom. And I'm thankful,
thankful that He has been that kind toward us. Okay, And so now
we go to the Book of Psalms chapter one hundred and six and we begin
to drill this concept of remembering our history and learning, learning, learning to
repent, turn away from sin toward God and that he will give us sorrow,
godly sorrow for our sins. And so let's go to the Book of
Psalm chapter one hundred and six and verse thirteen, and the Bible reads here
they quickly forgot what he had done and did not wait for his instructions.
So we need to recognize that, like even my own in my own family
line, I realize that I have some of the gifts and the calling of
people who have gone on before, like people who are passed away now,
people who have lived before, in some of whom I've seen, I've seen
their actions and activities, right, And I recognize I have the same gifts,
But I also I also need to be watching out for the pitfalls.
One person in particular, I'm like, oh, this dude was proud,
Like this dude started to believe the hype about himself way back in the seventies
and eighties. And I'm like, God, if you have created me like
him and I have similar gifts in calling to him, then it's possible that
the enemy's going to try this trick again, Like he's going to try the
same trick that he did on these certain people in my ancestry. Right,
And so I'm prayerful against these things because I'm recognizing the past failures and the
historical sins of God's people, including people in my own family. You see,
we have to update this thing. We need to not just look back
to the Exodus and God's people there. We look there, but we have
to see in our own lives. How does this stuff apply? And so
this serves as a reminder of the importance of acknowledging and learning from past mistakes
and failures. Okay, and then we can go down to verse six where
it reads, we have sinned like our ancestors. We have done wrong,
we have done evil, and so God encourages us to recognize the personal and
collective admission of guilt. Sometimes we are among God's people, just like I
think it was Isaiah said. He said, wee was me, for I
am undone. I am a man of unclean lips, and I come from
among a people of uncleaned lips. And so we recognize we don't distance ourselves.
People who stand up outside of places of worship sometimes and they're pointing there
their judgmental little fingers, and they have even some people are on YouTube with
hundreds of thousands of people following them pointing their judgmental little fingers at the people
of God and some of the leaders among the people of God and judging them,
condemning them, identifying their sins the people that they're pointing at, and
not actually taking responsibility for their own sins. And so this is a collective
thing, a collective and personal admission of guilt. If you're among God's people,
then you have to recognize you're a part of the same family. And
don't point your finger at people, but say, God, we have sinned
in this regard. Lord, give your people, including me, repentance,
teach us how to serve you. Don't distance yourself, don't separate yourself,
don't become dissident in your mind set. But see where we have gone astray,
where we have fallen short, And do your best, brothers and sisters,
from within the flock and within the family, to make the wrongs right,
to repent and to point the way to righteousness having repented yourselves. You
see. And so I don't want to get on my soapbox here, so
I'll just pause right there. But we all need to admit our guilt before
God and then turn the shoulder, turn toward God. In a way from
our sins. I wish I had the time. Let's go to verse twenty
three of the Bible Psalm chapter one hundred and six, and the Bible reads
he had so he said he would destroy them, had not Moses has chosen
ones stood up in the breach before him to keep his wrath from destroying them.
You see. So, if I'm pointing my judgmental little thing at you
because you have sinned, and forgetting myself and how I live right and have
lived in the past right, I become self righteous and I can't stand as
an intercessor like Moses. Did you see Moses stood in the gap. It
says that he was an intercessor. The roles of Moses and others who interceded
for God's people prefigure Christ's intercessory role. You understand, you want to be
like Jesus, brothers and sisters. Yes, stand in the gap for somebody
today like Job did for his children. He said, if in case these
in their folly they sin against God, I need to stand in the gap
for them. At the end of Job's ordeal where his life turned into a
mess, but God was keeping him. He was still keeping him. He
had seemingly lost everything. He had four friends that were not properly connected to
God and a wife who had lost her mind. Yes and yeah, so
yeah, yeah, he stood in the gap for those three friends when God
said, I know I said four before because I'm including Elihu. But in
this case God said to those ali fasts, he said, listen, you
and your two friends need to go to Job and ask him to intercede for
you and offer sacrifice for you, and then I will hear him and forgive
you. You see, so we can't be judgmental and be an intercessor at
the same time. You see where this is going so much more, God's
unfailing love overcomes sin, personalizing the historical lessons and not just looking at it
as a history lesson, and then we need to remember God's words in order
to repent. A wonderful day. Thanks 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,