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, August
twenty eight, 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 continue to study
in the Book of Mark and our caption for today
is Earthly Duties and Heavenly Outcomes. Earthly duties and Heavenly Outcome.
Before we get into that, I'd like to welcome you
from wherever you happen to be in the world. I'm
thankful that you are here. It may be early in
the morning, it may be mid morning or even into
the evening. Because you are on almost every continent of
this world, this planet, and I'm thankful two hundred radio stations,
all kinds of different apps definitely, thirty online platforms, etc. Etc.
And that simply means that you have the capacity to
hasten the coming of our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ
by sharing the good news, the great news of Jesus Christ,
and the fact that his judgment is come. He's welcoming
us into his judgment so he can see us as
holy covered in the righteousness of Jesus Christ. So welcome
somebody into that fellowship, that relationship today and we can
continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
and then we will get underweigh. Father, thank you for
the privilege we have to be in league with you,
to be on your team in your community. But not
just to say that we're with you and take pictures
and take pictures and share everybody we're friends with Jesus,
but to go ahead and actually welcome other people into
right relationship with you, welcome them into the life rather
than death that they are now experiencing. Please give us
your holy spirit today in Jesus name, I pray, Amen
and Amen again. Well, we're running. We're running. We're running
through the Book of Mark. Now we're in chapter twelve.
I took you into chapter twelve without reading it yesterday,
but now we are at verse thirteen. So much to say,
so many controversies, unnecessarily so. And these controversies were with
the people that God, that God wanted to use to
save others. Can you imagine Jesus is having so much
trouble inside the fellowship in twenty twenty four? Is it
true still that God's people still have problems with God's
peaple people, that we still want to just talk about
the work and not do it according to the principles
God has given to us. Are we still having the
same challenges? Well, of course that's a rhetorical question. The
obvious answer is yes. Sometimes we don't humble ourselves before
God and do things in the way that He has
prescribed and given us the blueprint to do because we're
just too proud, some of us, not all. There are
people who are choosing to do things just like Jesus did,
And I'm thankful so hopefully everybody listening, everybody who's watching
me right now are among those who do it just
like Jesus did. Earthly duties and heavenly outcomes. Now we
are in chapter twelve of Mark, and I will read
beginning at verse thirteen, and the Bible reads, and they
send unto him certain of the Pharisees. Here we go again.
Here we go again, searchain of the Pharisees and Herodians
to catch him in his words when you are sending
a message, a messenger to God, like if you're sending
someone to God for any purpose, are you sending them
in order to get transformed by God or for some
other reason? When you're sending people to God, when you're preaching,
if you're a preacher, if you're teaching something, if you
are sharing a link to something on the internet, when
you're writing, when you're sharing yourself in a video a
quick video on Instagram, TikTok or some other platform, and
you are invoking the name, invoking the name of God,
and you are giving people to go and be attentive
like to hear about Jesus, Like what are you giving
them when they get there? It is it to trap
him in his words or attempt to him trap him
in his words, to say gotcha? Like some of these
people out here, dissident minded people who are out here
putting up pictures of God's people and all kinds of
stuff to show that they, in these people's minds, have
done things against God's word, when really that's not the truth.
Like what is your purpose? Like what are you doing
when you use Jesus's name? Well, well, these people wanted
to catch Jesus in his words verse fourteen. And when
they were come, they say, unto him, Master, we know
that thou art true and cares for no man. First
of all, they're lying. They're not telling the truth about
what they think about him. For thou regardest not the
person of men, but thou teachest the way of God
in truth? Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar?
Speaker 1: Or not?
Speaker 2: What to pay taxes? Is that what they're asking? Of course,
you're supposed to pay your taxes. But anyway shall we
give or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy,
said unto them, why tim gimi bring me a penny
and that I may see it? And they brought it,
and he said, unto them, whose image is on this
and superscription? And they said, unto him Caesar's Jesus answering
said unto them, render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's,
and to God the things that are God's. They marveled,
and they marveled at him, and then come unto him
the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection. And they
asked him, saying, Master Moses wrote unto us, if a
man's brother die and leave his wife behind and leave
no children, that his brother should take his wife and
raise up seed unto his brother. And there were seven brethren,
And the first took a wife, and dying, left no seed,
and the second took her and died, and neither left
he any seed, and the third likewise, and the seven
had her and left no seed. Last of all the
woman died also in the resurrection. Therefore they want to know,
they don't really want to know. They're really saying, we
don't believe in the resurrection. Look at this complicated thing,
because your law, like the law of Moses, actually says
that this is how it's supposed to work. And now
it looks like like if you're saying that there's a resurrection, Jesus,
it's going to be as the world turns in like
it's gonna be the guiding light in eternity. If you
don't know what that is, those are old soap operas.
It's gonna be a mess conflict. Huh, it's gonna be
Housewives of Whomever a show again, it's gonna be a mess,
a reality show. And Jesus is like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
I see what you're doing. No, no, no, Let me
just say something to you that in the Resurrection. In
the Resurrection, you're deceived by the way and you don't
know the power of God. In the Resurrection, there shall
neither be marrying or giving in marriage. There will be
neither marrying nor giving in marriage. You see, you will
be like the angels. And then in verse twenty six Jesus,
Jesus said, now, as for the dead being raised, have
you not read in the Book of Moses, in the
passage about the bush, how God said to him, I
am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and
the God of Jacob. You see, these men had already
passed away. Can I just say that He's resolving the
conflict right here, the controversy right here. These men had
already passed away. They were resting in their tombs and
So if God is the God of Isaac and the
God of Abraham and the God of Jacob verse twenty seven,
he is not the god of the dead, but of
the living. So Jesus resolves these arguments with the same
word that they were trying to use against him. Remember, Jesus,
Jesus is the living Word of God. In him was life,
and the life was the light of men. Hah. Yeah.
And so the question really is, when we are on
planet Earth and we are moving and breathing and living
among other humans, are we guiding them to the paths
of righteousness? Or are we looking for controversy? Are we
teaching people that while we live on planet Earth? Just
as the children of Israel when they were in Babylonian captivity,
God had told them that even though you're in captivity,
to cause Babylon to prosper while you're there. When Joseph
was in captivity, he caused everything in Potterphar's house, in
Pharaoh's house to prosper. When you are living on planet Earth,
are you making the place a better place while you're
here influencing people for the purpose of bringing them closer
to God? Are you controversial? You controversial? Speaking against the government,
Are you controversial speaking against the church? Are you controversial
or are you looking for ways to lead people into
right relationship with God, earthly duties with eternal, heavenly outcomes.
Make it a great day, 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.