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, May eight, 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 the two Witnesses resurrected. You should be hopeful
now because yesterday we said something that was almost until we got through the quick
study. But the fact is that God resurrected his two witnesses and we're looking
forward to talking about that in just a moment. But before we do,
I'd like to say welcome to everyone. Joining us, especially those joining us
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fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
Father and Heaven, thank you for this day and the opportunity that you've entrusted
to us. As I say every day, to open up your word,
Please help us to be encouraged by the fact that death is nothing to you,
and that you're able because you are the Resurrection, you are the life.
You are able to breathe life into any situation that you choose. In
Jesus' name, my pray, Amen and again, and as I have said
the last couple of days, that we will read heavily because it is very
difficult, considering the format I've chosen for Your Daily Portion to cover adequately what
we are looking at with this particular subject matter. But let me just give
you a few principles that you can apply today. Number One, God is
not intimidated, neither is he bound by death. Can I say that just
in a practical sense in your life, like when God forbid our loved ones
pass away, just like Lazarus did, just like one of my dear friends.
And I will let you know that my friend and I did beg God
and even go into the room and ask God to please wake up our friend
who had passed away. He was fully dead, fully dead, had succumbed
to cancer. And I was in Andrew's Memorial hospital and elt down next to
my brother in friend's bed with my hands on his chest, begging God.
With my other friend on the telephone. We were begging God to wake our
friend up, and God chose not to that day. But we see many
times in history and even in our lifetimes really where God wakes up the dead.
He does. And Jesus said to Lazarus's sister sister that he is the
resurrection in the life. And even though a person one of God's people will
die, that person will live, and he asks it, do we believe
it? Through her? Do we believe it? Do you believe that God
is able to raise the dead? And we have seen him do it,
we will see it again. And even in the example now of this two
witness story, the two witnesses we now know are the Word of God,
the Old and New Testaments. When they intended to destroy the Word of God
and France, they intended to erect reason, what they called reason, as
the antithesis of God's Word. And they thought reason quote would stand, and
the Word of God would not stand. And they even burned Bibles in the
streets, like, really, you think your little earthly fire can have an
effect on the Word of God, which is eternal? Are you kidding me?
Well, sometimes humans take it upon themselves to do crazy things, and
so well, the Bible teaches us. History teaches us that that did not
work. Even though they did what they did in terms of human laws,
even though they did what they did in terms of physical products. The book
called the Bible that they were burning in the streets as a demonstration. The
reality is that that power where God breathed, that's where inspiration comes from.
That term God inspired the men of God to write the words of God.
God breathed into his word and it became living. It became His word on
planet Earth. The sixty six pleasant present, these sixty six blessed books we
now call the Bible. They stand and will live forever. So really,
if we switch off this program now, we would have covered what really matters
here. But let me read from the lesson. The lesson writer said,
at the end of the French Revolution, God's Word would figuratively come to life
again. I would say symbolically right, there would be a mighty revival.
Great fear would fall on those who saw God's Word once more become the living
power of God unto salvation. May I ask you a question, is God's
Word alive in your life? See? The devil tried to destroy the Word
in your bosom. He tried to destroy and take away the new covenant in
your heart, where God said, I will write my laws in your heart
and in your life, so that no one will have to teach you to
know the Lord, because God is going to introduce himself to you and live
his life within you. But there were times that it felt like the life
was being taken out of you, and that the Word of God was dying
in your bosom. Uhuh have you seen where God was able to resurrect this,
where he could give you new hope and new life, where he could
teach you to agree with him, to confess your sins and to hold on
to holiness, and that agreement with God would manifest in your life to where
you had newness of life. The Word of God stands in your life today.
I know that many of you can testify that God was able to show
his words strong in your life. And so, in the same way it
happened back in those days. At the end of the eighteenth century, God
raised up men and women who were committed to taking the Gospel to the ends
of the earth. People spread the message of Bible rapidly, like William Carey,
who traveled into India and translated the Bible into dozens of Indian dialects.
Propelled by the power of the Bible, missionaries were sent around the world.
It is not by accident that these worldwide mission endeavors arose after the French Revolution.
Remember during that time they thought they could kill the Bible. Well,
after that failed attempt, we see that the Bible became even more powerful and
prominent in the people's lives. God's word is a living word, and although
to many it seemed quote dead, it is still living in the hearts of
believers who would rise again to full life. As revelations prophecies predicted now let
me read another quote the infidel infidel volataire Voltaire. I sorry, I know
that, once boastingly said, I am weary of hearing people repeat that the
twelve men established the Ristian religion. I will prove that one man will suffice
to overthrow it. End of quote. Well, generations have passed since his
death. Millions have joined in the war upon the Bible. But it is
so far from being destroyed that there were one hundred in Voltaire's time that were
now ten thousand, yes, one hundred thousand copies of the Book of God.
In the words of the early Reformer concerning the Christian Church, the Bible
is an anvil that has worn out many hammers. Can I say that again?
The Bible is an anvil that has worn out many hammers. And this
is coming in from the book The Great Controversy, page two hundred and eighty
eight. Listen, it doesn't even make sense to try to wear out the
word of God, because God's word is quick. That means it's life giving.
It is sharper than any two edged sword searches out our guts, our
intents. It knows because the Word of God is living everything that we intend
and so God through Christ is showing us that the Word is living. Remember
Jesus said, or it is said of Jesus in John chapter one. And
the beginning was the Word, and the word was with God, and the
Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things
were made by Him, and without any without him was not anything made that
was made. And him was life, and the life was the light of
men. You cannot kill the light of men. Jesus Christ, the Word
of God now manifest in some pages of these sixty six blessed books cannot be
destroyed. And I'm so thankful because I wouldn't be he 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,