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 Wednesday, November
twenty six, 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 Jewbilee. Now I've added a
another part, God's Blueprint for Equality and Renewal, the Jubilee,
God's Blueprint for Equality and Renewal. Before we get into that,
I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially
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faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray. Father, we
thank you, thank you for giving us the privilege of
coming together again. And I'm asking you to please fill
us with your holy spirit. Please teach us to rest,
teach us to rest in you. In Jesus's name, I pray,
Amen and Amen again. This is an incredible lesson. This
is an incredible lesson. So what I'm going to do
is read a couple of quotes, one from the book
Desire of Ages, page four hundred and eighty to get
us kicked off here, and it reads, Christ came to
break every chain of slavery. M has God broken the
chain of slavery in your life? Have you been enslaved
to something? Well? It continues to set people free from
sin and selfishness. I want you to be honest, have
you or are you being set free from sin and selfishness,
some things where you were from. We were little babies,
we had our hands tightly closed. Everything as we learned
to speak was mine, mine, mine. Yeah. And as we
grew up, many times even the most generous among us
have some things where we're territorial some of us. And
so what God is teaching us is that he has
come to set us free from sin and selfishness, self focus,
et cetera. Let me continue the quote. His mission is
the restoration of the divine image in humankind. That's the
end of the quote. Remember, let this mind be in you,
which was also in Christ, Jesus. And then the Bible
tells us the mindset of Jesus was to give everything
we need in the person and work of Jesus Christ,
to the point that he even gave up his life
for us. Okay, let me read from John Nevins Andrews
an interesting quote the Sabbath, and this is speaking of
the seventh day. Sabbath is a great equalizer, bringing all
to one level before the Creator. And so let's talk
about the Jubilee. The jubilee. Now, there were sabbaths in
the Old Testament, and then there was the Seventh Day
sabbath that came at the time of creation, where God
introduced the day Sabbath of the Lord, our God. Right
and so, but this principle of rest, this principle of sabbath,
in the case of the Jewbilee, was God's rhythm of grace. Now,
let me share with you what that looks like. Every
cycle of rest, release, and renewal pointed forward to Jesus.
This was an Old Testament concept, but it pointed forward
to Christ, the eternal, the eternal type of rest, who
restores balance, freedom, and equality for all creation. Now, let's
dial it back, dial it back, dial it back, and
say in our lesson number one, God designed rest to
restore dignity and balance. Let's go to Leviticus, chapter twenty
five in verse four. Very interesting. But in the seventh
year shall be a sabbath. This is not the seventh
day holy sabbath of the week. But in the seventh
year shall be a rest unto the land. Wait a minute,
a sabbath for the Lord. Thou shout neither so thy field,
nor prune thy vineyard. And so the Sabbath and Jubilee
reminded God's people that everything belonged to God. Hmhmm. Every
seventh year, even the land rested. So God wanted to
show us a rhythm, a cycle of work work, work, work,
work work. Let me count it out, work work, work, work, work, work, rest,
work work, work, work, work, work rest. And even in
the case of the land, when you counted it by years,
in the seventh year, even the land was to rest,
showing that ownership was stewardship. Let me say that again.
When God gave the people of God the land, it
was stewardship. We were to manage it, not to control it.
God gave us a cycle of rest, even in land. Okay.
And so what I want you to do, think about it,
is to practice rest by setting the seventh day Sabbath.
Now the seventh day Sabbath aside where you stop striving.
And I know it's difficult with all these cell phones.
I actually have a sabbath. I'll pull up one of
my old phones. I have a sabbath. What do you
call it? One of those sabbath folk.
Speaker 1: IY.
Speaker 2: So focus where you click it and then it doesn't
disturb a certain way during the sabbath hours. I want
you to do that, use that rest to remind yourself
that God not your work, not your bank account, not
the people who are relying upon you, not your job,
not your business. No one of that stuff sustains your life.
It's God that sustains your life. Okay. Lesson number two.
God's justice includes economic and social renewal. Okay, So jubilee
prevented permanent poverty and greed. Wouldn't it be nice if
we had that? In twenty twenty five, every fifty years
debts were canceled. I'm older than fifty years of age,
by the way, type of one in the chat, if
you are more than fifty years of age, Every debt
was canceled, Land was returned, and freedom was restored. It
reminded God's people that God values people over possessions. We
read now in Leviticus, chapter twenty five and verse ten,
and ye shall hollow the fiftieth year. That means to
make it holy and proclaim liberty throughout all the land
unto all the inhabitants thereof. And what I want you
to do is look for ways to live out that
kind of jubilee, that concept of jubilee today by forgiving debts,
are they financial or emotional? Somebody owe you five dollars.
You asked somebody, Oh, you've six thousand dollars Jamaican dollars. Ah,
and you've been hounding them for it. Maybe maybe you
can give them some grace, I don't know, maybe maybe
a financial or emotional and extend grace to others who
need a fresh start. M something to think about, something
to think about. You're like, what, I didn't expect you
to say that in this lesson. Well, anyway, let's go
to lesson number three. The Gospel is the true jubilee
of the soul, the Bible teaches Jesus now speaking, quoting
from the Old Testament scrolls in Luke, chapter four and
verse eighteen. The spirit of the Lord is upon me
to preach deliverance to the captives and recovering of psyche
to the blind. And of course I left some things out,
But the point is that the jubilee foreshadowed or prefigured
the spiritual renewal offered through Christ, who came to restore
what sin destroyed and deliver humanity from bondage. We were
bound to sin, enslaved and indebted because of our sin,
and Jesus came to set us free. So I want
you to live the kind of life that expresses forgiveness, freely,
remembering that Jesus's grace has canceled our debt, so why
not cancel the debt of others toward us. Make it
a great day, peace. Thanks for joining us listening.
Speaker 1: 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.