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 Sabbath, August
thirty one, 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 through the Book of Mark, and our
caption for today is the Last Days. We're in lesson
number ten already just three more lessons to go. But
we are grateful. We are grateful, and we'll get into
it in just a moment. But first I'd like to
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so as soon as you can. Let's go ahead and pray,
and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven. Thank
you for giving us the privilege to come into your
presence today. Thank you for the fact that we are
living in the last days in Jesus name, am I pray?
Amen and amen again. Yeah, so here is a great
big question, right, what do you think about the last days?
How do you feel about the last days? And I
want you to be honest, and if you're in social
media or on YouTube, I want you to go ahead
and type it in the chat, like, how do you
feel about the Last Days? Are you fearful because of
the last days? Are you concerned because we are living
in the last days? What are your thoughts your feelings
related to the last days? And then we need to
be asking and answering the question by ourselves, like do
we have the same perspective that Jesus has regarding the
last days? Because sometimes sometimes religious people and I know
the word I just used, I used it advisedly. Sometimes
religious people are confused concerning the last days because we
don't have God's perspective. And when I say that, like
God never intended to frighten people concerning the last days.
That was never his intention. Like God never used the
last day's concept as a bludgeoning tool. He never used
it as a way to just use it as a
whipping stick in order to get people into shape. No,
because really and truly, whether it's the Last days or
the First Days or some other days like that doesn't
work to transform people's lives. We may have information, we
may even have for a moment inspiration, but in order
to be transformed by the renewing of our minds, there
is no independent teaching like just to say that from
this date to this date, we now understand based on
these events that we are living in the Last days,
and then these are the things that will happen in succession.
And the longest time prophecy is this, and this is
what happened within this part of the prophecy for seventy
weeks of years, and then the other part of the
prophecy for the remaining part of the twenty three hundred
days or ye years. In that prophecy, that is not
going to transform anybody. And I know there are some
people who who are confused right now, because what are
you saying? Are we watering down the message? Absolutely not.
We will teach this message according to what God has
given us in these quote last days. We will see
the revelation of Jesus Christ in the way that Jesus
has presented this to us. And we will look forward
to the blessings, the threefold blessing of those who hear
and receive and do the things concerning or contained in
the prophecy of this book. Why because the time, what time,
the Last Days is at hand? And so okay, so
what are you saying, Dave, You're starting to confuse me.
I don't know what you're actually getting at what are
you saying. I'm saying we need to have the perspective
Jesus had. This is the perspective that Jesus had. And
I know somebody's expecting me to go right to Matthew
twenty four, but I'm going to pause first and go
into John chapter fourteen. First, Jesus said, let not your
heart be troubled. He said, let not your heart be troubled.
Why not, Jesus, because ye believe in God, believe also
in me. In my father's house are many mansions. If
it were not so, I would have told you I
go to prepare a place for you. And if I
go and prepare a place for you, I will come again.
Jesus said, I will come again and receive you unto myself.
That where you are, where I am, there ye may
be also. And so the days just prior to him
coming again are the last days. He's looking forward to
the day when he will come. He's looking forward to
the day that we will be finally transformed in a moment,
in a twinkling of an eye. He's looking forward to
the day that the last trump of God, the shout
from the archangel will happen, and the dead in Christ
will rise first. He's looking forward to the day. He's
looking forward to the day whenevery me shall bow and
every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to
the glory of God the Father. But he would like
for us to do it now and not be bound
by circumstance, because we have made for our final decision
to go against God. And then that reality of bowing
and confessing only comes because we can't help but to
see the truth. But we God forbid, have chosen to
go down to destruction. No, so the moments before Jesus
comes back the last days, Jesus wants us to have
an expectant faith. He wants us to be submissive to
his will and to lead others into a right relationship
with him. And incidentally, now he is recorded in the
Book of Matthew chapter twenty four, says, don't be deceived.
There will be false prophets and false Christs who will
deceive many. But and there will be some things that
happen in government. There will be some things that happen
in the natural environment. But these are not the focus.
These are the beginnings of sorrows. But one day we
will finally fulfill the mission that he also said that
this gospel of the Kingdom will be preached into the
entire world for a witness. And then and only then
shall the income when those who hear his voice, his sheep,
hear his voice, those who are his sheep that are
not of this fold, them also will he bring during
the last moments of the last days, so that the
family of God can continue to grow just before Jesus comes. Finally, finally, finally,
we can see that Jesus is on his way. That
is his perspective, and so if we don't have his perspective,
we're going to be doom and gloom. We're going to
be fearful. And don't get me wrong, the last of
the Last Days are no joke. There're gonna be some
complicated things going on. But guess what, in the same
way that He taught his people or his children during
the time that they were in captivity in Egypt, that
he is able even during those plagues, those ten plgues
that fell in their captivity, he protected his people. And
when the seven last plags fall on the people who
have ultimately chosen to go against God in the last
of the Last days when there will be trouble. There
will be a time of trouble unlike anything we've ever
seen before. God is going to protect his people. He's
going to protect his people. Every earthly support will be
cut off, but God's people, if we continue to lay
our hands in the hands of the one of the
man who stilled the waters, we will be just fine.
It will be painful, but we will have to learn
from the experience of brother Jakob, Jacob whose name now Israel.
The sons of Israel, the daughters of Israel, we need
to learn as those children of the promise. We need
to recognize that if we lay hold upon God and
do not let him go until he blesses us, that
we will get through the last days in bright, shining colors.
And finally, the reward that He has promised will be
with us to give every person according as our work
shall be. And then the Bible says here in March
chapter thirteen, then will we see the Son of Man
coming in the clouds with great power and glory. And
then he will send his angels and gather his elect
from the four winds of the farthest part of the
earth to the farthest part of heaven. We look forward
to Jesus coming, but in the meantime we are sitting
in the last days. But we need to have God's
perspective until he comes. 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.