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 Monday, June three, 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.
We're still in Lesson number ten. Our caption for today is Death in
the Old Testament. Death in the Old Testament. We'll talk that in just
a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you
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faith and fellowship at your Daily Portion dot Com. Let's go ahead and pray
and then we will get underway bathering in heaven. Thank you for this new
day and for the privilege we have to get off into our work week.
Please, Father, help us to see the blessing and the messages that you
intend for us here and not just think that it's a clinical sort of classroom
exercise. Please help us to see the resurrection and the life in Jesus name.
I pray, Amen and a men again. So I'm going to share,
like the key for today in my mind is that there is hope in
the truth about death if we believe God for it. And it sounds backwards
because you're like death, Yeah, there is hope. Let me fix the
microphone. There is hope in the truth about death if we believe God for
it. You see, sometimes we make up reasons as human beings. I'm
saying, we make up reasons to have hope, and then when that hope
is disappointed based on the thing that we made up, and then we blame
it on God, you see. And so what I want you to do
is think from God's perspective, and you're like, well, how can I
think from God's perspective? Well, the first thing we do through the power
of the Holy Ghost is to go into God's word. Okay, and so
let's go ahead and begin. Let's begin in the Book of Psalms, chapter
six and verse five. The Book of Psalms, chapter six, and then
we will read verse five, and the Bible reads for in death there is
no remembrance of the I'm going to read it in another version, in a
moment in the grave, who shall give thee thanks? Okay, let me
read it again, for no one remembers you in the realm of death.
In shield that's a Hebrew term for this particular concept relating to the grave who
gives you thanks. And so this passage can reassure us that death is a
peaceful state of rest like there is nobody who is writhing in pain, no
one who is restless, No one can be disturbed, no need as they
do in hotels, no need to put up but do not disturb sign right,
because everybody who dies is resting, free from troubles. It invites us
to live meaningfully today. That's what I wanted to get to Let's live meaningfully
today. Ask God to teach you how to remember Him today when you wake
up every morning, God, help me to remember what great things You've done
for me until now. Whenever I am tempted to worry, Help me to
remember that every single trial, every single tribulation, every difficulty that I've ever
had until now, You've been there for me, even when I did not
recognize it. You see, help me to remember that I can give thanks
today, you understand. So my focus, brothers and sisters, is not
death. My focus is while I am living. I can give thanks.
While I am living. I can remember the greatness of God. While I
am living, I can lead others into the same kind of relationship. And
so I want you to live meaningfully today. I want you to cherish your
moments and give thanks and remember God in everything that you do. Bible says,
if we remember God, then we will win, okay. And so
in the Book of Psalm chapter one hundred fift and verse seventeen, the dead
praise not the Lord. So, thinking from the way that I've been reasoning
until now, I think you know where I'm going. But let me pause
for a moment. The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go
down into silence. So yeah, there was a well, I don't want
to go into that video that was circulating, but there is a concept now
that we can think about, like when is it appropriate to to praise God
loudly? When is it appropriate to to cry out to God? Like when
is it appropriate for us to be silence? Well, all silent, but
all of that goes away when a person dies. Right, So now now
knowing that one day we will go down in silence. Likely not everybody will
die before Jesus comes, but billions of people have already died, and billions
more will die before Jesus comes back. And every single one of them,
bar none, one hundred percent of those individuals are completely silent unless God raised
them from the dead like he did Lazarus, you understand. And so in
the meantime, since the dead, don't praise the Lord, Since everybody who
dies will go on down into silence, now is the time to praise him,
praise him for his mighty acts, like praise him according to his excellent
greatness everything that has breath. It is our privilege to do what praise the
Lord? Okay, And so we reflect on this verse. We find comfort
in knowing that death is a temporary state. It's temporary where earthly toils shall
cease. This understanding fortifies our hope in the resurrection. And guess what happens
when we're raised by God at the appropriate time. If we have lived a
lifestyle of submission to God and praise, you know what's gonna happen. We're
gonna be able to praise Him forever and ever and ever. We will enjoy
the company of India Viduals, who also lived the life of praise and worship
forever and ever. And it will never stop, and we will not keep
silent from that point forward when Jesus comes and raises his people. Okay,
and now we go to First Kings, Chapter two and verse ten. The
Bible reads, so David slept with his fathers as King David, he slept
with his fathers and was buried in the city of David. Now I remember
in the New Testament the apostles were saying that David's grave remains until this day.
They were just basically saying that like he's resting, and the place where
he is resting still remains. All of those many many years later, and
so we know now that the phrase of slept with his fathers suggests a peaceful
rest, even if you put individuals who were family members side by side by
side, or on top of one another, depending on how the grave site
is, and then the remains go down and decompose in whatever. But when
Jesus comes, he's going to raise everybody that is his child, and David
among those, David and Josiah and others of the family, those will likely
be raised incorruptible. The Bible says that we're affirming that death is not an
end, but a pause. It offers us the hope of reawakening to everlasting
life, to immortality, Brothers and sisters, just as one awakes from sleep,
refreshed and renewed. I get up at three a m. Every single
morning, every day of the week, and I rested through the night.
You get up at whatever times you get up, and you rest it through
the night, and then when you wake up, you're aware of everything that
is happening, because why you're no longer resting. We look forward to the
day when Jesus will raise those who love him. He will raise those who
have yielded their will to him. He will raise those who are looking forward
to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. And in the book The Great
Controversy, it says those visitants those Sometimes people have visitors and they're wondering if
it's really their dead loved ones. But we know now that it's the enemy.
Impersonating people will appear to our tender sympathies and will maybe we'll also work
miracles to sustain their pretensions. We must be prepared to withstand them with the
Bible truth that the dead don't know anything. All of the dead are just
resting until the appropriate resurrection. Thank you a great day, 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,