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, December twenty six, twenty twenty three. 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 for this final week.
God's mission, my mission, and our caption for today is the Final
Crisis. The Final Crisis. We'll get into that in just a moment,
but first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you to go over
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pick up the your Daily Portion book at your Daily Portion dot com. This
is a way that we 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 day and our daily bread. Please teach us to look forward
to the day when you will finally end this crazy race of between the conflict
between you and the enemy, and finally we will have love pulse through the
universe. Please make us holy in the meantime, in Jesus name, I
pray, Amen and damen again the Final Crisis. I remember there was a
book by mister Chai, Fernando Fernando Chai when I was growing up. I
remember that book, and then eventually I met him because I worked in the
university setting with his wife, Selma Selma Chai, and it was an honor
to to meet them. Because this book, Preparation for the Final Crisis,
was a compilation of Bible teachings and quotes from inspiration that did exactly what the
book titled says, like prepare us for the Final Crisis. It wasn't this
frightening sort of book, but it did show that there are judgments that will
take place. It did show that there was a way for people to be
holy in preparation for that final final push before Jesus comes. And it's going
to be difficult, no question. The time of Jacob's trouble is not going
to be a joke. But one day, finally, finally, sin and
sinners will be no more, and so we'd have to be prepared for the
final moments, the final crisis as Jesus's own on his way. Now,
let's focus right here, focus our attention just for a moment on the fact
that Jesus gave his life for us. Okay, let me say it another
way. Jesus died, he gave his life for you. He gave his
life for you, brothers and sisters, He gave his life for you.
I want you to focus on that. I want you to dwell on that,
like he gave himself for you. Personally, there is nothing that you
could have done that is so dark and so wicked that Jesus's sacrifice cannot resolve
if you submit your will to him, isn't that wonderful? And so when
you go out with this mission, this message to people that you know or
people that God just gives you an encounter with now you can be fully convinced
and in your own spirit, because you know what it's like to be loved
to the degree that finally, finally, somebody is willing to see who I
am, still love me, and then transform me, give me a new
mind. God said that he will take out from us the stony heart and
put in us a heart of flesh. And so it can be your testimony
now that since Jesus died for us, I am now personalizing has died for
me and is transforming me from a hopeless sinner into a hopeful and holy sing
I know that he can do it for you. He's done it for me,
and this is my testimony he can do it for you. And so
dwell on that every day of your life, and give thanks, Give thanks
as you prepare for the final crisis. Give thanks now, Jesus said to
his disciples and to us, go therefore and make disciples of all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded on you. And
you know what's really cool about this, brothers and sisters, he didn't just
give us instructions. Now he says, I will be with you, and
lo give keen attention to look. I am with you always, even until
the end of the earth and to the end of this age. A men,
this is the Great Commission, and in many ways the three angels messages
that we barely even scratch the surface of yesterday. With a call to every
nation and tribe and tongue and people, is simply the truth for our day,
the present truth, the expression of the Great Commission. Go out,
teach people who Jesus is and about his transformative love and power. And the
fact is, right before Jesus comes, it will become difficult. But once
that difficulty passes, those individuals who are completely committed to God will finally get
to a point where we don't have to contend with sin or sinners anymore,
and it'll be one pulse of love throughout the entire universe. I'm gonna say
that often so that we can get it into our minds now. In the
Book of First John, the Book of First John, chapter four, and
the Bible reads here in verse eight it says he that loveth not knoweth not
God, for God is Love. So those who are in romantic relationships.
You're trying to decide whether you should get married or not. But one or
the other person is abusing you, showing selfish tendencies, not preferring you above
his or herself. That is not love, That is not godly. Run
like, run away quickly, get away quickly, because you don't want to
be married to someone in that kind of mindset. Right. And I could
talk about so many other things, But the Bible reads here in verse nine,
and this was manifested the love of God to war us. How did
we see love? Like? How do we know the love of God?
Because that God sent his only begotten son into the world that we might live
through him. Wait a minute, let's see if there's anything else. Verse
ten. Herein is love, not that we loved God. See, God
wasn't waiting for us to love him. He wasn't saying, well show me,
show me your love and then I'll bless you. No. It says
here not that not that I lost my place here in his love, not
that we loved him verse ten, but that he loved us and sent his
son to be a propitiation for our sins. That means that he was the
sacrifice He was the substitute. He was a manifestation of mercy, the mercy
seat. He was a propitiation for our sins. Beloved. If God so
loved us, we ought also to love one another. As we prepare for
the final crisis. Love must be the overarching principle of our lives. Love
for God, God, love for humans. We love God so much that
because of his love in our lives, He is the cause of our love.
We love him because he first loved us. Now we see the manifestation
of that love, because we are able to keep his commandments. He is
keeping his promise in us that He can keep his commandments in our lives,
including one and two, and three, and four and five, all the
way down to the tenth. Not just one of them, but all ten
of them. God is able to keep in our lives. And it shows
as a manifestation also in how we treat our neighbor. And we've covered already
that our neighbor or other humans are anybody who needs God, anybody who needs
God. That is a manifestation of his love in our hearts and in now.
In the Book of Second Peter, The Book of Second Peter, Chapter
three, verse and verse nine. We read the Lord is not slack concerning
as promise as some men count slackness. But it's long suffering to us word
not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
But the day of the Lord shall come as a thief in the night,
and the witch that the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and
the elements shall melt with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that
are therein shall be burned up. What kinds of people should we be?
We talked about that the other day. Seeing that this is the reality,
as we prepare for the final crisis, we need to know that Jesus is
coming soon and finally, finally we'll be able to say, Lo, this
is our God. We've waited for him, and he is now here to
save us. Let's prepare with holiness as we look forward to the coming.
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,