1 00:00:01,199 --> 00:00:05,559 Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, because yesterday's 2 00:00:05,639 --> 00:00:10,480 food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do 3 00:00:10,599 --> 00:00:15,039 some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to 4 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:19,879 keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change 5 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:25,039 all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need 6 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:30,839 to live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, 7 00:00:31,039 --> 00:00:34,240 author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good 8 00:00:34,240 --> 00:00:38,280 morning. It is Wednesday, May eight, twenty twenty four. Hello, 9 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:41,320 my name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is 10 00:00:41,399 --> 00:00:45,679 your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today 11 00:00:45,799 --> 00:00:50,880 is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson study series the Great Controversy. 12 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:56,399 Our caption for today is the two Witnesses resurrected. You should be hopeful 13 00:00:56,439 --> 00:01:02,280 now because yesterday we said something that was almost until we got through the quick 14 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:07,040 study. But the fact is that God resurrected his two witnesses and we're looking 15 00:01:07,079 --> 00:01:10,959 forward to talking about that in just a moment. But before we do, 16 00:01:11,040 --> 00:01:14,719 I'd like to say welcome to everyone. Joining us, especially those joining us 17 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:18,599 for the very first time. Please please please go over to your Daily Portion 18 00:01:18,719 --> 00:01:23,799 dot com. Please join our online community, pick up the Your Daily Portion 19 00:01:23,879 --> 00:01:26,560 book, and let us know where you are in the world at your Daily 20 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:30,680 Portion dot Com. This is a way that we continue to build faith and 21 00:01:32,359 --> 00:01:36,120 fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. 22 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:40,879 Father and Heaven, thank you for this day and the opportunity that you've entrusted 23 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:42,920 to us. As I say every day, to open up your word, 24 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:48,079 Please help us to be encouraged by the fact that death is nothing to you, 25 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:51,959 and that you're able because you are the Resurrection, you are the life. 26 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:56,799 You are able to breathe life into any situation that you choose. In 27 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:01,200 Jesus' name, my pray, Amen and again, and as I have said 28 00:02:01,599 --> 00:02:06,480 the last couple of days, that we will read heavily because it is very 29 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:12,800 difficult, considering the format I've chosen for Your Daily Portion to cover adequately what 30 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:16,199 we are looking at with this particular subject matter. But let me just give 31 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:21,639 you a few principles that you can apply today. Number One, God is 32 00:02:22,039 --> 00:02:27,919 not intimidated, neither is he bound by death. Can I say that just 33 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:31,319 in a practical sense in your life, like when God forbid our loved ones 34 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:36,759 pass away, just like Lazarus did, just like one of my dear friends. 35 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:40,360 And I will let you know that my friend and I did beg God 36 00:02:40,479 --> 00:02:46,680 and even go into the room and ask God to please wake up our friend 37 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:52,199 who had passed away. He was fully dead, fully dead, had succumbed 38 00:02:53,960 --> 00:03:00,960 to cancer. And I was in Andrew's Memorial hospital and elt down next to 39 00:03:01,039 --> 00:03:06,039 my brother in friend's bed with my hands on his chest, begging God. 40 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:09,240 With my other friend on the telephone. We were begging God to wake our 41 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:13,800 friend up, and God chose not to that day. But we see many 42 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:19,439 times in history and even in our lifetimes really where God wakes up the dead. 43 00:03:19,879 --> 00:03:27,159 He does. And Jesus said to Lazarus's sister sister that he is the 44 00:03:27,240 --> 00:03:30,560 resurrection in the life. And even though a person one of God's people will 45 00:03:30,599 --> 00:03:35,080 die, that person will live, and he asks it, do we believe 46 00:03:35,120 --> 00:03:38,120 it? Through her? Do we believe it? Do you believe that God 47 00:03:38,199 --> 00:03:43,080 is able to raise the dead? And we have seen him do it, 48 00:03:43,159 --> 00:03:49,680 we will see it again. And even in the example now of this two 49 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:53,439 witness story, the two witnesses we now know are the Word of God, 50 00:03:53,520 --> 00:03:59,800 the Old and New Testaments. When they intended to destroy the Word of God 51 00:03:59,840 --> 00:04:05,319 and France, they intended to erect reason, what they called reason, as 52 00:04:05,439 --> 00:04:11,919 the antithesis of God's Word. And they thought reason quote would stand, and 53 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:15,680 the Word of God would not stand. And they even burned Bibles in the 54 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:19,279 streets, like, really, you think your little earthly fire can have an 55 00:04:19,279 --> 00:04:23,519 effect on the Word of God, which is eternal? Are you kidding me? 56 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:28,680 Well, sometimes humans take it upon themselves to do crazy things, and 57 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:31,759 so well, the Bible teaches us. History teaches us that that did not 58 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:35,720 work. Even though they did what they did in terms of human laws, 59 00:04:35,759 --> 00:04:41,439 even though they did what they did in terms of physical products. The book 60 00:04:41,879 --> 00:04:45,680 called the Bible that they were burning in the streets as a demonstration. The 61 00:04:45,800 --> 00:04:53,000 reality is that that power where God breathed, that's where inspiration comes from. 62 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:58,680 That term God inspired the men of God to write the words of God. 63 00:04:59,639 --> 00:05:05,040 God breathed into his word and it became living. It became His word on 64 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:12,279 planet Earth. The sixty six pleasant present, these sixty six blessed books we 65 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:15,720 now call the Bible. They stand and will live forever. So really, 66 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:20,720 if we switch off this program now, we would have covered what really matters 67 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:25,360 here. But let me read from the lesson. The lesson writer said, 68 00:05:25,639 --> 00:05:30,920 at the end of the French Revolution, God's Word would figuratively come to life 69 00:05:30,079 --> 00:05:34,839 again. I would say symbolically right, there would be a mighty revival. 70 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:41,759 Great fear would fall on those who saw God's Word once more become the living 71 00:05:41,879 --> 00:05:45,600 power of God unto salvation. May I ask you a question, is God's 72 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:48,959 Word alive in your life? See? The devil tried to destroy the Word 73 00:05:48,959 --> 00:05:55,000 in your bosom. He tried to destroy and take away the new covenant in 74 00:05:55,040 --> 00:05:59,000 your heart, where God said, I will write my laws in your heart 75 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:01,839 and in your life, so that no one will have to teach you to 76 00:06:02,439 --> 00:06:06,079 know the Lord, because God is going to introduce himself to you and live 77 00:06:06,439 --> 00:06:13,120 his life within you. But there were times that it felt like the life 78 00:06:13,199 --> 00:06:15,959 was being taken out of you, and that the Word of God was dying 79 00:06:16,079 --> 00:06:20,560 in your bosom. Uhuh have you seen where God was able to resurrect this, 80 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:24,639 where he could give you new hope and new life, where he could 81 00:06:24,839 --> 00:06:29,560 teach you to agree with him, to confess your sins and to hold on 82 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:34,040 to holiness, and that agreement with God would manifest in your life to where 83 00:06:34,079 --> 00:06:40,199 you had newness of life. The Word of God stands in your life today. 84 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:44,639 I know that many of you can testify that God was able to show 85 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:47,199 his words strong in your life. And so, in the same way it 86 00:06:47,279 --> 00:06:51,040 happened back in those days. At the end of the eighteenth century, God 87 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:57,439 raised up men and women who were committed to taking the Gospel to the ends 88 00:06:57,439 --> 00:07:02,319 of the earth. People spread the message of Bible rapidly, like William Carey, 89 00:07:02,360 --> 00:07:08,360 who traveled into India and translated the Bible into dozens of Indian dialects. 90 00:07:08,759 --> 00:07:13,000 Propelled by the power of the Bible, missionaries were sent around the world. 91 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:18,759 It is not by accident that these worldwide mission endeavors arose after the French Revolution. 92 00:07:18,959 --> 00:07:23,319 Remember during that time they thought they could kill the Bible. Well, 93 00:07:23,519 --> 00:07:29,360 after that failed attempt, we see that the Bible became even more powerful and 94 00:07:29,439 --> 00:07:33,279 prominent in the people's lives. God's word is a living word, and although 95 00:07:33,399 --> 00:07:38,680 to many it seemed quote dead, it is still living in the hearts of 96 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:46,000 believers who would rise again to full life. As revelations prophecies predicted now let 97 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:51,759 me read another quote the infidel infidel volataire Voltaire. I sorry, I know 98 00:07:51,839 --> 00:07:57,879 that, once boastingly said, I am weary of hearing people repeat that the 99 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:03,279 twelve men established the Ristian religion. I will prove that one man will suffice 100 00:08:03,319 --> 00:08:07,879 to overthrow it. End of quote. Well, generations have passed since his 101 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:13,879 death. Millions have joined in the war upon the Bible. But it is 102 00:08:13,959 --> 00:08:22,160 so far from being destroyed that there were one hundred in Voltaire's time that were 103 00:08:22,319 --> 00:08:26,879 now ten thousand, yes, one hundred thousand copies of the Book of God. 104 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:31,240 In the words of the early Reformer concerning the Christian Church, the Bible 105 00:08:31,759 --> 00:08:37,960 is an anvil that has worn out many hammers. Can I say that again? 106 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:43,879 The Bible is an anvil that has worn out many hammers. And this 107 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:48,360 is coming in from the book The Great Controversy, page two hundred and eighty 108 00:08:48,399 --> 00:08:52,039 eight. Listen, it doesn't even make sense to try to wear out the 109 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:56,360 word of God, because God's word is quick. That means it's life giving. 110 00:08:56,720 --> 00:09:01,559 It is sharper than any two edged sword searches out our guts, our 111 00:09:01,600 --> 00:09:07,000 intents. It knows because the Word of God is living everything that we intend 112 00:09:07,679 --> 00:09:13,080 and so God through Christ is showing us that the Word is living. Remember 113 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:16,840 Jesus said, or it is said of Jesus in John chapter one. And 114 00:09:16,879 --> 00:09:20,000 the beginning was the Word, and the word was with God, and the 115 00:09:20,039 --> 00:09:22,919 Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things 116 00:09:22,919 --> 00:09:28,639 were made by Him, and without any without him was not anything made that 117 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:31,919 was made. And him was life, and the life was the light of 118 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:35,559 men. You cannot kill the light of men. Jesus Christ, the Word 119 00:09:35,559 --> 00:09:41,039 of God now manifest in some pages of these sixty six blessed books cannot be 120 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:45,960 destroyed. And I'm so thankful because I wouldn't be he thanks for joining us 121 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:50,480 listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by 122 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:54,720 every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily 123 00:09:54,759 --> 00:10:00,279 portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,