Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Monday, October
twenty seven, twenty twenty five. 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 lessons of Faith from Joshua, and
our caption for today is the Supreme Judge, The Supreme Judge.
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Let's pray, Father, thank you for this day, and thank
you for giving us the privilege of coming together. And
thank you for being the judge and not leaving all
judgment up to humans. Thank you in Jesus' name. I pray,
hey man, and amen again the Supreme Judge. I'm so
glad that God has not left us solely in the
hands of humans. Yes, yes, he has shown in the
scriptures that the magistrates and judges, he said, did I
not also call them God's lowercase G, meaning that they
represent the living God Blessed be his name? And they
have responsibility. They have responsibility to execute judgment and justice
in the way that God would have us to see
it in our societies, even in twenty twenty five. And
I know that He has given his Holy Spirit. He
has made it possible that those individuals would have a
basis for holiness and judgment. However, we're seeing more and
more every day that the systems are more and more corrupt.
We saw it back in the day, yes, in the
Bible times, for sure, But daily we see some slips
into areas where we're like, but but my Goodness, God, like,
how long will you allow these things to happen? Where
injustice seems to become the norm at times? I said, seems,
I said, seems, So we need God to be the
ultimate judge, the supreme judge, because humans have a habit
of dropping the ball. And so the lesson writer points
out that the holiness of God's character means that he
cannot tolerate sin. He cannot tolerate sin. He is patient. However,
sin must reap its final consequence, which is destruction. God,
the one who created us, has declared war on sin,
regardless of where it's found, whether in his people or
among people who never even declared that they loved God.
And so we go in with our lessons for today.
Our lessons for today, beginning with God's judgment reveals his holiness.
I love this one from the Book of Psalms, chapter
seven and verse eleven. God judgeth the Righteous, that is,
he shows he manifests based on his standard of holiness,
his law, and the character of Christ, which he can
put in our lives if we are willing to surrender
our will to him. God Judgeth the Righteous. And God
is angry with the wicked every day because God, I
told you the other day, and you've read it in
the word. I didn't make it up, so you know
I'm not the originator, clearly. But God has given us
so much mercy, He's revealed himself in so many ways
for so many generations that there is literally no no
excuse for any of us, especially those under the sound
of My voice, especially double, especially me. There is no
excuse for me to jump into sin. There is no
reason for me to backslide into old ways. There is
no reason for me to do those things that displease God,
because He's the one, through his mercy and the giving
of the righteousness of Christ and the empowerment through the
Holy Ghost, for us to live like He would have
us to live. And this is revealed in his holiness.
God's role as judge flows from his character of perfect holiness.
He is patient, but cannot ignore sin forever. The Canaanite
wars were not campaigns of human glory. They were not
they were not. They weren't. It wasn't conquest. God was
just saying, listen, the cup of his indignation had been filled,
and he had given it as much mercy as he could,
and now the people have to really just get what
they have chosen. Yeah, whether judgment fell on Canaan or
God's people, God's standard was the same. He cannot tolerate evil,
even among his own people. Let me just say the
most graphic example of this is the fact that Jesus
died in his humanity, or his human as his human
self died on the cross to save us from our sins.
The judgment of God was upon Jesus's humanity, because Jesus
became sin in order that we could become the righteousness
of God. And so in the moment that he's crying
out to his father as if he had been forsaken,
I said, as if because he could not sense the
presence of his father. The sun wasn't even shining in
the way that he had normally seen, and he just
couldn't take that separation. That meant that in that moment hmm,
justice was being meeted out against sin because Jesus assumed
the guilt of every human being on planet Earth at
any time during any age. So that now if we
confess our sins, he is faithful and He's just to
forgive us of all of our sins and to cleanse
us from all unrighteousness. So God does not discriminate. He
is the one who is merciful to all. And if
people decide to turn our backs on him, then God forbid.
He's the one that has to execute the judgment or condemnation.
So invite God every day to expose the hidden sins
in your heart. This is not to jump up and
down day. This is not the day that we play
the ham in B three and lose our minds in
the spirit. If you want to say in air quotes,
this is the day that we humble ourselves before God.
We are searching our own souls and we're saying God, God,
if there be any sin inside of my life that
I have not yet surrendered, please show it to me.
Please show it to me and give me the strength
to turn away from it. Our lesson number two comes
in from the Book of Psalms, chapter fifty and verse six,
and the heaven shall declare his righteousness. For God is
judge himself. So when God judges, his goal is restoration.
That's the goal. That's the goal. Every act of judgment
restores moral order where sin caused chaos. God's wars in
the Old Testament were divine interventions to preserve righteousness in
the land. If he just let that stuff go, some
of the stuff we see in the news, God is
gonna judge that. I promise you He's not gonna let
that stuff go forever and ever, all of that that corruption,
all of the wickedness in the nation. He's not going
to allow that stuff to go forever and ever. At
some point he's going to stand up. He fights. His
purpose of fighting has nothing to do with conquest, but
everything to do with peace on earth, good will toward men.
Somebody just heard what I said. And then finally, our
lesson is gospel. The gospel is God's judgment and grace aready.
I already mentioned it to you a moment ago, in
my moment of passion. But the cross is where divine
judgment and mercy come together. We thank God that he
has given us the privilege of experiencing his mercy so
that we never have to experience his condemnation. Peace.
Speaker 1: 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,