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 Thursday, September twelve,
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 are Who Are You? Is? Who are You?
Who Are You? We'll get into that in just a moment,
but first I'd like to say welcome to you and
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one of the ways that we continue to build faith
and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we
will get underway. Father and Heaven, Thank you for giving
us this new day. Thank you for loving us and
protecting us thus far in the week. Please help us
to know our identity in You. Help us never to
forsake you and flee. Help us to be strong in
these last days and not weak like those disciples of
yours were. And I know and know that some people
are confused and think that we have to do the
wrong that those men did. But God, you have shown us,
even in their lives, that you are able to keep
us strong, to keep us from falling. And I pray
that we will accept this in Jesus' name, I pray
Amen and Amen again. I need to say something to
us all. I don't know, because you represent countries all
over this world, on almost every continent, and so your
mindsets may be different than where I happen to be.
But I find that when God's people where I am
living come together and we discuss these things, we say
we're no better than them, Meaning when the disciples made
those terrible errors, when the children of Israel, God's people
up until Jesus was born on planet Earth, had made
those terrible errors. I hear us constantly drilling into each
other's minds that we are just like them, and I'm like,
hmm hmm, Well that doesn't have to be the case.
I'm going to give you an example. In just a moment.
We need to transform, We need our mindsets transformed. And
this may be the moment for a lot of you
and so and so. Yes, they the disciples forsook Jesus
and fled. Yes, that first generation of freed slaves out
of Egyptian captivity, God's people, all of them, Aaron Moses included,
died in the wilderness because of their lack of faith.
And if you think like me, and you're listening keenly,
there are one or two of you that are saying, wait, wait, wait, wait,
not everybody, not so fast, not so fast. That second
generation didn't die. Okay, that's good, that's good. Those children
who were twenty years and younger at the time of
the exodus, they didn't die. Okay, that's true. But there's
somebody else out there that's saying, not so fast, Dave,
you're talking fast. Ld you're talking fast. Slow down a
little bit. Joshua and Caleb were faithful. Joshua and Caleb
were faithful. Hmm. And those children of Israel, they did
not die. Those were the two men that lived and
saw the promised land from that first generation of people.
And what this says to me, Enoch, Elisha, Joshua, Caleb,
can I continue, Abigail? Can I continue? Job? And so
many more? Anna holda huh. These are people, Hilkiah. These
are people who demonstrated Daniel Hannah, Nayah Miche yale as Ariah.
These people demonstrated the kind of character that God Joseph
h the son of Yakub Israel. Ah. Yeah, these people
demonstrated what it's like to actually yield our will to God.
And so we have to stop giving each other the
complex to think that we have to be like Judas,
we have to be like the rest of the disciples
that ran away from Jesus. I just gave you multiple
examples of people who decided that no turning back was
their motto. They decided that they would follow Jesus. Joshua
as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
And he actually served the Lord the prophet Samuel, he
served the Lord. I can go on and on and on.
Niah Mayah he served the Lord. Isaiah learned to serve
the Lord. So we need to be on the side
of those individuals. I know we can all repent. Thank God,
they forsook him and fled and then most of them repented.
Judas didn't. And we can be like that. But I
just need you to know that there are people who
stand on on the principles of God ten toes down,
who don't rest on our laurels. We don't trust in ourselves,
we don't lean to our own understanding, but we do
trust God to the degree what degree, Dave? We trust
God to the degree that these men and women demonstrated
that they would be holy no matter what happened. And
if you're living in the last days, that is where
you and I must can and will come to if
we're God's children. And so stop preaching into your brain
that you have to do the wrong thing. Stop that
we're no better than them. Well, it's not about being better.
It's about being submitted to God's will. And God has
people who will not bow, and I want you to
be one of those people. Every person who's under the
sound of my voice. You're on radio, television, you are
on a podcast, you're on YouTube, you're in social media,
and somebody may have shared this with you, and this
is your first time. I need you to resolve today,
on this day, on September twelve, twenty twenty four, that
you will stand and you will not fall, you will
not crumble. You will cash in on the promise where
Judas or Jude recorded now unto him that is able
to keep you from falling and to present you faultless
before the Father with exceeding joy. You will be one
of those people in these last days. I hope this
is clear to you. I hope this is clear to you.
And so now Jesus is being carted from mock trial
to mock trial in Mark chapter fourteen, beginning at verse sixty,
and he's going from place to place and place to
place in these men, these wicked men verse sixty. And
the high priests stood up in the midst and act
Jesus saying, answerest thou nothing against those accusations that they
were throwing and hurling at him? What is it that
these witness against thee? But he Jesus held his peace,
and he answered nothing. You see, Jesus had no reason
to defend himself. His character and connection to God his
Father was defense enough. His character, the manifestation of the
fullness of God bodily was enough to answer the claims.
He answered nothing. Again, the High Priest asked him and said,
unto him, art thou the Christ, the son of the Blessed.
See they should have been They should have been studying
the Bible, like they should have been studying in Daniel,
where he would manifest as the anointed One. They should
have seen the works and examined the works on the
merits of the work's sake, to know that he was
indeed Jesus, the anointed one Messiah who was to come.
Are you the son of the Blessing? He said, I am,
and ye shall see the son of Man sitting on
the right hand of power and coming in the clouds
of heaven. And the High Priest rent his clothes and said,
Jesus was prophesying. By the way in that moment. Now
we see Jesus is prophesying about what is written of
now in Revelation chapter one and verse seven. Them also
that pierced him, They will see Jesus coming in the
clouds of heaven, and the High Priest rent his clothes.
When the high priest should have worshiped him. The High
Priest rent his clothes and said, what need we any
further of witnesses, And then of course he says that
Jesus blasphemes, and on and on, and then they start
to beat Jesus. Are you serious, the one who came
to save us from our sins? Are you serious? The
one who created us, the one who gave all so
that we could be saved. They aren't beating him, Yeah,
they're beating him about the head and face. Of course,
Peter he cursed and said bad words to distance himself
from Jesus, who was taking a beating that Peter should
have taken, that we all should have taken. And Jesus
was preparing himself to give his life for us and Peter,
and Peter's saying bad words and running away, and all
of the rest of the disciples have already forsaken him,
and Judas betrayed him, and Judas is is going to
go ahead and kill himself later. And Jesus, with all
of what's hanging and weighing in the balance. Jesus stood
with his eyes focused. He knew exactly what he came
here to do, and he came here to save you.
Who are you When the question is asked, are you
a child of God? Are you going to run away
from Jesus too? You get 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,