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.
Speaker 2: Vibrant lives.
Speaker 1: Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
Elle David Harris.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Friday, October
thirty one, 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 my phone just lit up part
of me. Our caption for today is when God for
bearns ends, when God's for barns or his patience ends.
Before we get into that, i'd like to say welcome
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that's encouraging. Let's go ahead and pray and get underway. Father,
We thank you, Please help us to accept your patience,
but don't wear you out. In Jesus' name, I pray,
Amen and Amen again, and you're like, oh my wear
out God. Yeah, well we can. We can actually quench
the spirit, like we can really weary the Holy Ghost
in the sense of turning away his entreaties for us
to serve God in his patience. Let me just begin.
Let me just begin with a quote today from from
the Bible Commentary, the SDA Bible Commentary, Volume two, page
one thousand and five, and it reads God is slow
to anger. I think we can just end right here.
God is slow to anger. This is one of the
things that he said to Moses when he he had
welcomed him into an experience in the mount when Moses said,
if if we have found favor with you, please show
me your glory. And God revealed in aspect of his
character to show that he is slow to anger. But
guess what he also said, he will and know wise
clear the guilty. So don't take his slow to anger ness.
I just made that way of saying it up as
a way to be disrespectful to God. Don't wear out
the Holy Ghost, don't don't quench the spirit of God.
Let's not push God away because he's he's slow to anger.
Please let me continue the quote. He gave the wicked
nations a time of probation that they might become acquainted
with him and his character. Do you realize that God
is doing the same today as we are traversing the
path toward a final experience with God. In eternity, living
in heath for a thousand years, and then inheriting the
earth Ah forever and ever, like he promised in Matthew five.
He's still giving nations. He's giving nations time of probation.
Do you realize to whom much is given, much is
to be required? If you are living in a nation
where democracy is the way that government is set of
the people, for the people, by the people, even if
you don't use those words anywhere in the world, realize
that we are all on those during that time of
probation because God expects these to be a bastion of hope,
a bastion of justice, a bastion of religious liberty. We
are expecting that nations that are governed in this way
should use the blessing of God's mercy as an opportunity
to give people the freedom that we need in order
to serve God. According to our conscience, was that was
that was not planned? That was free? That was free.
Let me continue the quote, according to the light given, What,
according to the light given was their condemnation for refusing
uh oh, to receive the light uh oh and choosing
their own ways rather than God's ways. God gave the
reason why he did not at once dispossess the Canaanites.
Of course, we're going back there. The iniquity of the
Amorites was not full. Through their iniquity, they were gradually
bringing themselves to the point where God's forbearents could no
longer be exercised and they would be exterminated. I don't
like that word, but I find myself in opposition to
God when he is at the point when when he
has to do it. If I am am am and
having a problem with it, Yes, Moses showed us what
it looks like to entreat God and beg him not
to do this. But at some point, if love is
going to be that final pulse throughout the universe, if
God's character will be finally the standard for all humans
and we will all or all created beings, as the
case may be, even the heavenly agencies, then that means
that there's a time when sin has to be exterminated
full stop. I don't even know another way to say it.
Until the point was reached and their iniquity was full,
the vengeance of God would be delayed. All nations had
a period of probation. Can I just say in twenty
twenty five, that's still the reality. I'm repeating myself. Those
who made void God's law, now we know what the
standard is, his law, his Ten Commandments law. And yes
they are still binding upon people, including especially people who
are living under what we call the New Covenant. Because
God has written his laws in our hearts. He has
written his laws on our minds, and He has given
us the privilege of actually being able to do His
will because of the Holy ghosts working through us the
will and to do of God's good pleasure. Mm hmm.
Children would inherit the rebellious spirit of their parents. Oh, God,
help Simone and I to teach Josiah your ways and
to do worse than their fathers before them, until God's
wrath would fall upon them. The punishment was not less
because it was deferred. Lord, help us not to take
your mercy, please, for granted, God has given us a
way out. We do not have to go down the
path of our four parents, our forebearers, who some of
them despise the mercy of God. Romans chapter two and
verse four talks about that. And so this is a
question for you, it's a question for me as well,
how does divine patience reveal both God's mercy and his justice?
Do you realize that the same one we know as
the Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ, the Anointed, the anointed
one who is as God our father, is that Jesus,
who gave his life for us, is a manifestation of
God being able to be just and the justifier of
those who are called by God. Meaning God can see
us just as if we had never sinned. He can
forgive us and cleanse us from all of our unrighteousness
if we surrender our will to him, because Jesus paid
the debt that is required of every soul that sins.
Because the Bible says every soul that sins must die,
that means all of us, every human who's ever lived
on plant earth, with the exception of Jesus Christ, was
really supposed to die. Anyone born of a woman should
die because we have all sinned and come short of
the glory of God. But I'm glad that the text
doesn't stop there. It says that he can be just,
meaning meet the judgment against sin, but he also can
justify us. That means he can make it as if
we had never sinned when we simply surrender our will
to God. When we yield our will to God and
we accept God's mercy, we can have eternal life. We
can have eternal life, so when God's forbearance ends, we
have no need to be on the end of that
we can have his mercy. Peace.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
Speaker 2: Friends.
Speaker 1: 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,