1 00:00:01,199 --> 00:00:04,160 Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, 2 00:00:04,599 --> 00:00:07,879 because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:12,240 today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's 4 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:15,400 portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep 5 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:19,199 us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going 6 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:23,280 to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today 7 00:00:23,559 --> 00:00:27,480 and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives. 8 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:31,879 Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker, 9 00:00:32,039 --> 00:00:33,079 Elle David Harris. 10 00:00:34,039 --> 00:00:36,920 Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Wednesday, November 11 00:00:36,960 --> 00:00:40,880 twenty six, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El 12 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,799 David Harris. I am your host, and this is your 13 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:47,799 Daily Portion where we give you God's Word every single day, 14 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:51,000 and today is no exception. We are continuing in our 15 00:00:51,079 --> 00:00:55,759 lesson study series Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our 16 00:00:55,799 --> 00:01:00,320 caption for today is the Jewbilee. Now I've added a 17 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:06,799 another part, God's Blueprint for Equality and Renewal, the Jubilee, 18 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:11,959 God's Blueprint for Equality and Renewal. Before we get into that, 19 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:14,760 I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially 20 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:17,640 those joining us for the very first time. I'm asking 21 00:01:17,680 --> 00:01:20,200 you to go over to your Daily Portion dot com. 22 00:01:20,439 --> 00:01:23,920 Please join our online community. Please pick up the Your 23 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:27,319 Daily Portion Life Application Guide. And if you are so 24 00:01:27,439 --> 00:01:30,400 inclined to contribute to the ministry, go ahead and click 25 00:01:30,439 --> 00:01:33,760 that donate button and let us know where you are 26 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:38,239 in the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This 27 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:41,079 is one of the ways that we continue to build 28 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:44,799 faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray. Father, we 29 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:47,519 thank you, thank you for giving us the privilege of 30 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:50,560 coming together again. And I'm asking you to please fill 31 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:53,719 us with your holy spirit. Please teach us to rest, 32 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:57,400 teach us to rest in you. In Jesus's name, I pray, 33 00:01:57,879 --> 00:02:03,640 Amen and Amen again. This is an incredible lesson. This 34 00:02:03,719 --> 00:02:06,599 is an incredible lesson. So what I'm going to do 35 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:10,520 is read a couple of quotes, one from the book 36 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:13,159 Desire of Ages, page four hundred and eighty to get 37 00:02:13,199 --> 00:02:16,439 us kicked off here, and it reads, Christ came to 38 00:02:16,560 --> 00:02:21,120 break every chain of slavery. M has God broken the 39 00:02:21,240 --> 00:02:25,039 chain of slavery in your life? Have you been enslaved 40 00:02:25,120 --> 00:02:30,159 to something? Well? It continues to set people free from 41 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:33,800 sin and selfishness. I want you to be honest, have 42 00:02:33,879 --> 00:02:37,400 you or are you being set free from sin and selfishness, 43 00:02:37,919 --> 00:02:40,479 some things where you were from. We were little babies, 44 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:45,599 we had our hands tightly closed. Everything as we learned 45 00:02:45,599 --> 00:02:49,199 to speak was mine, mine, mine. Yeah. And as we 46 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:52,319 grew up, many times even the most generous among us 47 00:02:52,360 --> 00:02:55,479 have some things where we're territorial some of us. And 48 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:58,759 so what God is teaching us is that he has 49 00:02:59,199 --> 00:03:03,520 come to set us free from sin and selfishness, self focus, 50 00:03:03,599 --> 00:03:06,840 et cetera. Let me continue the quote. His mission is 51 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:12,439 the restoration of the divine image in humankind. That's the 52 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:15,159 end of the quote. Remember, let this mind be in you, 53 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:18,879 which was also in Christ, Jesus. And then the Bible 54 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:23,759 tells us the mindset of Jesus was to give everything 55 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:27,319 we need in the person and work of Jesus Christ, 56 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:29,360 to the point that he even gave up his life 57 00:03:29,919 --> 00:03:34,439 for us. Okay, let me read from John Nevins Andrews 58 00:03:34,599 --> 00:03:37,960 an interesting quote the Sabbath, and this is speaking of 59 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:43,280 the seventh day. Sabbath is a great equalizer, bringing all 60 00:03:43,759 --> 00:03:49,960 to one level before the Creator. And so let's talk 61 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:53,159 about the Jubilee. The jubilee. Now, there were sabbaths in 62 00:03:53,199 --> 00:03:55,759 the Old Testament, and then there was the Seventh Day 63 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:58,879 sabbath that came at the time of creation, where God 64 00:03:58,919 --> 00:04:03,479 introduced the day Sabbath of the Lord, our God. Right 65 00:04:03,599 --> 00:04:08,439 and so, but this principle of rest, this principle of sabbath, 66 00:04:09,479 --> 00:04:14,719 in the case of the Jewbilee, was God's rhythm of grace. Now, 67 00:04:15,159 --> 00:04:17,839 let me share with you what that looks like. Every 68 00:04:18,079 --> 00:04:24,920 cycle of rest, release, and renewal pointed forward to Jesus. 69 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,959 This was an Old Testament concept, but it pointed forward 70 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:34,879 to Christ, the eternal, the eternal type of rest, who 71 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:43,040 restores balance, freedom, and equality for all creation. Now, let's 72 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:45,600 dial it back, dial it back, dial it back, and 73 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:49,600 say in our lesson number one, God designed rest to 74 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:54,800 restore dignity and balance. Let's go to Leviticus, chapter twenty 75 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:59,160 five in verse four. Very interesting. But in the seventh 76 00:04:59,279 --> 00:05:03,720 year shall be a sabbath. This is not the seventh 77 00:05:03,839 --> 00:05:07,519 day holy sabbath of the week. But in the seventh 78 00:05:07,639 --> 00:05:12,839 year shall be a rest unto the land. Wait a minute, 79 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:19,399 a sabbath for the Lord. Thou shout neither so thy field, 80 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:25,839 nor prune thy vineyard. And so the Sabbath and Jubilee 81 00:05:26,000 --> 00:05:31,399 reminded God's people that everything belonged to God. Hmhmm. Every 82 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:35,720 seventh year, even the land rested. So God wanted to 83 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:38,879 show us a rhythm, a cycle of work work, work, work, 84 00:05:38,959 --> 00:05:44,759 work work. Let me count it out, work work, work, work, work, work, rest, 85 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:50,040 work work, work, work, work, work rest. And even in 86 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:53,199 the case of the land, when you counted it by years, 87 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:57,360 in the seventh year, even the land was to rest, 88 00:05:58,120 --> 00:06:04,639 showing that ownership was stewardship. Let me say that again. 89 00:06:05,360 --> 00:06:07,959 When God gave the people of God the land, it 90 00:06:08,079 --> 00:06:11,920 was stewardship. We were to manage it, not to control it. 91 00:06:12,240 --> 00:06:17,279 God gave us a cycle of rest, even in land. Okay. 92 00:06:17,319 --> 00:06:19,720 And so what I want you to do, think about it, 93 00:06:19,759 --> 00:06:24,000 is to practice rest by setting the seventh day Sabbath. 94 00:06:24,079 --> 00:06:29,240 Now the seventh day Sabbath aside where you stop striving. 95 00:06:30,199 --> 00:06:32,360 And I know it's difficult with all these cell phones. 96 00:06:32,399 --> 00:06:34,759 I actually have a sabbath. I'll pull up one of 97 00:06:34,759 --> 00:06:38,399 my old phones. I have a sabbath. What do you 98 00:06:38,439 --> 00:06:40,439 call it? One of those sabbath folk. 99 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:40,560 Speaker 1: IY. 100 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:43,480 Speaker 2: So focus where you click it and then it doesn't 101 00:06:43,519 --> 00:06:46,639 disturb a certain way during the sabbath hours. I want 102 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:50,519 you to do that, use that rest to remind yourself 103 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:55,079 that God not your work, not your bank account, not 104 00:06:55,199 --> 00:06:58,040 the people who are relying upon you, not your job, 105 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:02,079 not your business. No one of that stuff sustains your life. 106 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:07,160 It's God that sustains your life. Okay. Lesson number two. 107 00:07:07,240 --> 00:07:13,120 God's justice includes economic and social renewal. Okay, So jubilee 108 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:18,120 prevented permanent poverty and greed. Wouldn't it be nice if 109 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:22,519 we had that? In twenty twenty five, every fifty years 110 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:27,199 debts were canceled. I'm older than fifty years of age, 111 00:07:27,279 --> 00:07:30,160 by the way, type of one in the chat, if 112 00:07:30,199 --> 00:07:33,079 you are more than fifty years of age, Every debt 113 00:07:33,199 --> 00:07:38,439 was canceled, Land was returned, and freedom was restored. It 114 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:45,360 reminded God's people that God values people over possessions. We 115 00:07:45,439 --> 00:07:48,040 read now in Leviticus, chapter twenty five and verse ten, 116 00:07:48,079 --> 00:07:50,800 and ye shall hollow the fiftieth year. That means to 117 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:56,480 make it holy and proclaim liberty throughout all the land 118 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:01,199 unto all the inhabitants thereof. And what I want you 119 00:08:01,279 --> 00:08:04,639 to do is look for ways to live out that 120 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:10,439 kind of jubilee, that concept of jubilee today by forgiving debts, 121 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:14,120 are they financial or emotional? Somebody owe you five dollars. 122 00:08:14,199 --> 00:08:18,879 You asked somebody, Oh, you've six thousand dollars Jamaican dollars. Ah, 123 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:22,040 and you've been hounding them for it. Maybe maybe you 124 00:08:22,040 --> 00:08:25,079 can give them some grace, I don't know, maybe maybe 125 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:29,800 a financial or emotional and extend grace to others who 126 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:34,440 need a fresh start. M something to think about, something 127 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:36,559 to think about. You're like, what, I didn't expect you 128 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:39,519 to say that in this lesson. Well, anyway, let's go 129 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:43,960 to lesson number three. The Gospel is the true jubilee 130 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:48,759 of the soul, the Bible teaches Jesus now speaking, quoting 131 00:08:48,799 --> 00:08:51,639 from the Old Testament scrolls in Luke, chapter four and 132 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:55,279 verse eighteen. The spirit of the Lord is upon me 133 00:08:56,080 --> 00:08:59,919 to preach deliverance to the captives and recovering of psyche 134 00:09:00,039 --> 00:09:02,399 to the blind. And of course I left some things out, 135 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:08,320 But the point is that the jubilee foreshadowed or prefigured 136 00:09:08,799 --> 00:09:14,279 the spiritual renewal offered through Christ, who came to restore 137 00:09:14,360 --> 00:09:19,000 what sin destroyed and deliver humanity from bondage. We were 138 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:23,559 bound to sin, enslaved and indebted because of our sin, 139 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:27,600 and Jesus came to set us free. So I want 140 00:09:27,639 --> 00:09:34,480 you to live the kind of life that expresses forgiveness, freely, 141 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:39,639 remembering that Jesus's grace has canceled our debt, so why 142 00:09:39,679 --> 00:09:43,399 not cancel the debt of others toward us. Make it 143 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:46,360 a great day, peace. Thanks for joining us listening. 144 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:50,159 Speaker 1: Friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but 145 00:09:50,279 --> 00:09:52,720 by every word that comes from the mouth of God. 146 00:09:53,600 --> 00:09:56,399 This has been your daily portion with El David Harris. 147 00:09:57,039 --> 00:10:00,279 Make it a great day. Yeah.