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 Thursday, July eighteen, twenty twenty four. Hello,
my Namezelle 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 through the Book of Mark,
and our caption for today is Sandwich Story Part two. Now you know
what Sandwich story means. You can go back to yesterday if you have not
been here before and see what the lesson writer meant by that. But we're
in part two now, and before we begin, I'd like to say welcome
to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the very first time.
I'm asking you to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please
pick up the Your Daily Portion book. Let us know where you are in
the world at your Daily Portion dot Com. Let's go ahead and continue to
build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and get underway. Father
and Heaven, thank you for giving us this day and for the opportunity to
open up your word. I'm asking you to please fill us with your holy
spirit, teach us how to serve and to love you. I ask you
to please give us the fullness of power to do your will. In Jesus'
name, I pray, Amen and Amn again. Okay, So a lot
is going on here in the scriptures, and I want to introduce now from
the Bible Book of Mark three a couple of verses. We'll go back to
verses twenty and twenty one and see what God, what God has has to
say to us. Okay, and we're back here again. We read it
yesterday. But let's take another peek. And the Bible says, and the
multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.
And when his friends heard of it, they went out and lay hold
on him, or they said he is beside himself. Okay, And so
the lesson writer says, a charge of mental instability is quite serious. This
is what they're saying about Jesus by the way he's beside himself. What typically
this arises from experiences where a person is at a threat to do, a
threat to his or her own safety. Jesus's family felt this way about him
because he was so busy that he did not take time to stop, even
to eat. But they're saying he's unstable. They set out to take charge
of him. That there were the outer story of the sandwich. This is
where the story breaks off, interrupted by the inner story about the scribes charging
Jesus with being like with the devil. A strange parallel exists between the outer
stories and the inner stories of this sandwich. Jesus's own family seems to have
a view of him parallel to that of the scribes. The family says he's
mad or crazy. The scribes say that he's in league with the devil.
You see where this is a problem. So in the middle of this story
we're seeing like the common denominator is that two sets of people think that Jesus
is off track, one with the devil one with his mental health. What
in the world? Okay, So let's go down to I'm just blown away
by this. Let's go down to verse thirty one, and the Bible says,
and there came then his brethren and his mother and standing without sent unto
him, calling him. So we're talking about the people with his the mother
of his birth, and those brothers that would have been attached to his stepfather
Joseph. Okay, And so they're calling unto him and the fat I shouldn't
say stepfather, Maybe that's not the right way to say it. But Mary's
husband. It's not really a stepfather. You know how the miracle of his
birth happened, right, So it's hard for me to figure out how to
say Joseph. Right, but Joseph's son. So now those are his brothers,
Okay, got it. And so they're outside they're calling for him Verse
thirty two. And the multitudes sat about him, and they said, unto
him, behold thy mother, and thy brethren without they seek for thee.
So who are we talking about. We're talking about his mommy, Mary,
and then the the brothers who are the sons of Joseph. Okay, they're
calling for thee and he answered them saying, who is my brother? Who's
my mother? Who are my brothers? Who is my mother? And he
looked around about them which sat about him, and said, behold my mother
and my brethren. So he's in the middle of doing what God wants him
to do and his actual mother and his brothers are calling unto him. And
Jesus turns that into a teaching moment. Do you see all of these people
or these people around? Do you see all of these people? These people,
if they do my will, are my family. And I say that
again, these people, if they do my will, these people are my
family. Who's soever ever shall do the will of God? The same is
my brother and my sister and my mother. Some of you may have had
difficulty vibing or connecting with family, the family that you were born into.
I know that I did. I had a challenge because I didn't quite know
how to. I didn't understand it, like it was disjointed. There were
things going on in my household that threw my whole understanding of family off.
I heard the word, but I couldn't understand it because I was like,
well, I don't really think that this is what God meant by family.
I don't really think this is what even even humans mean by family. It
was not the right model, right, This is how I saw it,
no disrespect. And so what Jesus is saying is that, yeah, we
have a new model of family here. The new model of family is everybody
who has been adopted into the Family of God through Christ. Those are your
family worldwide. There are some brothers and sisters you're listening right now. English
is your second language, or you don't speak English at all. Maybe you're
reading captions in your own language or dialect on this social media platform or on
YouTube. You are learning to speak or hear in English, but you don't
even speak like I have brothers and sisters in different parts of the world that
don't even speak the same language that I do. I have mothers and aunties
and uncles, grandparents. I have children around the world whose language I don't
speak, people I've never met. And I hear the song I'm so glad
I'm a part of the family of God. And what God is trying to
tell us is that what brings us together is are yielding to God through the
Holy Spirit. What brings us together is confessing and forsaking our sins. What
brings us together is literally living like God is our father and that Jesus is
our savior. This is what makes us family, brothers and sisters. This
is what makes us family. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.
I hope you're getting this. Jesus said to Nicodemus in John chapter three.
I believe he was speaking to Nicodemus right, Yes, he said, marvel
not. When I say unto you that you must be born again. That
which is born of flesh is flesh. So your mommy and daddy, how
that happened. That's that's a fleshly reality. That is a biological process.
They came together, and now you're here. That which is born of flesh
is flesh. But I'm showing you away into the new family. I'm showing
you away into the family of God. That which is born of spirit now
is spirit. So marvel not when I say unto you that you must be
born again. Everybody who's born again our family. And so I'm thankful that
God gave us in this discussion the key to our loneliness, the key to
our isolation. In twenty twenty four, no person who is a part of
the Family of God needs to be isolated. No person who's a part of
the Family of God should feel loneliness because you have brothers and sisters all over
the world beginning at where you are that He wants to plug you into into
the community and the family of God. I'm so glad I'm a part of
the Family of God. Yeah. We have our challenges sometime, but we
are God's family nonetheless. Make it a great day, peace, Thanks for
joining us, listening to 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,