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. It's
July 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 through the Book of Exodus,
and our caption for today is the Divine Judgment, The
Divine Judgment. Before we get into that, I'd like to
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we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead
and pray and get underway. Father, thank you for this day.
Please teach us not to have not to be afraid
of you. Teach us not to be afraid of you,
but simply surrender ourselves to your will. In Jesus name,
I pray, Amen and Amen again. Yeah. There are many
times that the people of God when we discuss judgment,
either go to one extreme and just we burn down everything,
like everything is to be burnt down, you know what
I mean, Like that's what judgment means to some people.
And then and then others. Others are feeling condemned just
because it says judgment, you see. And so John actually
knew about this because the Holy Ghost showed it to
him that there is no fear in love because love
casts out fear. Fear hath torment, and those who are
perfected in love now have boldness in the day of judgment.
I'm saying it slowly so we can get it. So
if we are covered in the blood. God is our past,
Jesus is our passover. He gave his life for us
so that we can be saved. Yes, then that means
we have no need to be afraid of condemnation. Paul said,
there is no condemnation to those who are in Christ
Jesus who walk according to the flesh. That's the behavior
of people who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not
according to the flesh, but according to the spirit. And
so I read now as that being our backdrop, from
the book Patriarchs and Prophets, page two hundred and eighty,
and it reads, throughout the vast realm of Egypt, the
pride of every household had been laid low. The shrieks
and whales of the mourners filled the air. You see,
that didn't need to happen, That experience need not to
have happened, but those that it occurred. For where it occurred,
to those people, it was because they rejected the blood.
They rejected the entreaties of God, the warnings of God,
they rejected the commands of God. So we don't need
to go back thousands of years and look to that
night and see that. Wait a minute, there are people
today that are rejecting the love of God. There are
people today, God forbid, there are people today who are
who are forgetting about the warnings of God. There are
people today that are refusing to be covered by the
blood of the Lamb. Those individuals will have the same outcome.
The quote continues. The shrieks and whales of the mourners
filled the air. Kings and courtiers, let me just say,
it didn't matter if you were If you're a president,
if you're a prime minister, if you're a queen, if
you're a king. It doesn't matter whatever the governmental calling
is on your life. You're a governor general, if you
are a leader of a company or an organization, you're
a pastor, you're a president of a religious institution. It
doesn't matter if I'm the person who is sweeping the
floors in any of those halls of power. It doesn't matter.
All of those individuals have an opportunity, have an opportunity
to a serve God and be covered by the blood
of the Lamb, or reject him. It's our choice. But
in this case, the kings and courtiers, with blanched faces
and trembling limbs, stood a gas at the overmastering horror.
That is, brothers and sisters, the definition of condemnation. It
is horrifying at the second coming of Christ, there will
be people who say, lo, this is our God. We
have waited for him, and he will save us. But
they were also people. There will also be people, unfortunately,
and God forbid, there will also be people that see
Jesus coming, and they say, hide us from the face
of him that sitteth upon the throne, and from the
wrath of the lamb. Can you imagine a lamb having wrath?
Why is that necessary? Only because individuals choose that for themselves.
I can't say ourselves, because that ain't my testimony, by
the grace of God, okay. And so that divine judgment
did not need to be It was the choice of
only the hard hearted people. So our first lesson comes
in from Exodus, chapter twelve and verse twenty nine. And
it came to pass at midnight. At midnight, the Lord
smoked all of the first born in the land of Egypt,
that is, those who were not covered. And so God's
judgment is precise and purposeful. Do you remember when Abraham
was having that remonstrance with God where he was like, God,
are you going to destroy Sodom and gomor if there
are your people there, like You're going to just destroy everybody.
Can we talk about this God? What if there are fifty?
What if there are forty? And he goes down this
number trail. I don't know exactly what numbers he said,
but we know what was recorded in scripture. And I
don't know why he stopped at the number that we
see recorded in scripture. Why didn't he say, if there
be one God that salt and light. I always wondered, like,
why didn't he go to God and say, if there's
one in the land, will you please spare the land
for the sake of the one? But as we understand
the story, God by hand through the angels had to
pull Lot and his family out of there, and they
all got out of there, and then the place was destroyed.
But the people who were covered by God were not. Yeah,
why choose to be destroyed? God said, I don't take
pleasure in the death of those who die. Therefore turn
yourselves and live. I think that's in Ezekiel chapter eighteen
and Ezekiel chapter thirty two. I'm if my memory served,
So examine the areas of your personal life, your personal influence,
where you've delayed obedience today, choose one thing that God
has already shown you, and act upon it. That is today,
right now, that one thing He's already been clear to
you about, Now act upon it. Lesson number two, Faith
obeys God's way before condemnation comes. In Hebrews eleven twenty eight,
through faith, he kept the passover and the sprinkling of
the blood, lest he that destroyed the first born should
touch them. And so the action step is not to
wait for clarity. Come on, man, don't wait for clarity
when obedience has already been made clear. There's nothing else
to discuss like. Just ask God for the strength that
you need to do His will, create a physical reminder
of God's past faithfulness to encourage trust in future instructions.
And then this one should cause all of us to tremble.
Sin impacts others beyond ourselves. Think about your children, Think
about the people who look up to you. Think about
the people you influence online. Think of the people at
your job, in workplace, the people in the taxis that
you ride on your way to your workplace. Think about
the people in the pews next to you, you in
those worship centers and churches. The Bible reads here in Exodus,
chapter twelve and verse thirty. There was not one house,
not a house where there was not one dead. So
confess the hidden sins between you and God, just you
and God, and reconcile with anyone who may have suffered
because of your delay, your disobedience, or your pride or
your pride. Remember, perfect love cast out fear. We don't
need to fear condemnation unless we have separated ourselves from God.
Make it a great day. It's a solemn warning. 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,