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
May fifteenth, 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 how to study Bible Prophecy, and our
caption for today is the Fall of Lucifer. The Fall
of Lucifer. We'll get into that in just a moment. Prefirs,
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Father and Heaven. Thank you for giving us this new
day and for the privilege that we have to come together.
We're all over the world, so many radio stations, so
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so your presence is where your people are. So thank
you for bringing us into your presence from around the world.
Now I'm asking you to fill us with your Holy
spirit today. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again.
The fall of Lucifer. I almost want to say the
jump of Lucifer. I just really do. I want to
say the jump of Lucifer because falls like almost like
you tripped over something and whoopsie fell, But it looks
like Lucifer who had one job. I'll come back to that.
Jumped into sin somehow, some mysterious way, Lucifer jumped into sin. Yeah,
he had one job. What was his one job? It's
in his name, Lucifer, like he's the son of the Morning.
He was to reflect the brightness of God. But he
decided at some point, in some kind of way, I
don't know or understand it, and neither do you. He
started to believe his own press. He started to believe
eva his own press. When he would walk by the
celestial mirrors and see all of those beautiful rainbow of colors,
ah representing the character of God. He was covered in
all of those fine and precious stones where they're covering
that's what the Bible says. And when he would see
his reflection, this is what I'm seeing in my mind.
He would see his reflection and be like, yeah, I'm
that guy. He would begin to believe the press. He
believed the high numbers in social media. He has fifteen
million followers, one hundred million followers, three hundred million views,
a billion views, people sending stars and everything in his
social media feed. He started to believe the veneer over
his face to where he could change himself. Of course,
I'm colloquializing this thing. I'm bringing it to our time.
He's putting the filters over his image, and he's starting
to believe the hype about himself instead of reflecting God
now how he is, he's shining his own light. He's
shining his own light instead of reflecting the light and
character of God now. And that's why Jesus was like,
how art thou fallen? How did this happen? How did
this happen? And so we're going to learn a few
lessons here before we let you go. First from Ezekiel,
chapter twenty eight and verse seventeen, I said, we are
going to learn some lessons here, and the Bible reads,
thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty. This
is what the prophet is talking about regarding Lucifer. Thou
hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness. And
now God says, I will cast thee to the ground.
I will lay thee before kings that they may be
hold thee. The lesson here is that Lucifer's pride in
his own beauty and ability led to his dish instruction.
I said, his pride, I think King Aziah had the
same problem. He was good for like almost fifty years
as the ruler Azariah Aziah, Yeah, Asiah, that's his other name.
Yeah Yeah, And then he started to believe the hype
about himself until he was strong in his own eyes,
and then that was the end of it. And so
for me, I need to ask God in prayer today
to expose to me, not saying on the internet, I'm
not saying to you, but to me, exposed to me
any pride lurking in my heart and replace it with humility.
That's what I need today, and so do you. Yeah,
Because the Bible says that the heart is deceitful above
all things, and desperately wicked. Who can know it? So
we ask God in our private time to expose the
areas of pride to us and then give us the
way the means to live as humble human beings. In
Isaiah chapter fourteen, beginning at verse thirteen, the Bible reads,
for thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend
into heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars
of God. I will be like the most high. And
so the lesson here is that Lucifer shifted focus from
glorifying God to glorifying himself. That became a spiritually fatal error.
Now the action for me is to write out one
way that I can use my gifts and talents this
week solely to honor God and not just myself. Not myself,
because that eye problem is what killed Lucifer and made
him Satan. The dragon. Yeah, the accuser of the brethren,
the enemy of God, the serpent. Mm hm. Right, out
one way you can use your gifts and talents this
week to honor God exclusively. And now we go to
verse sixteen of Ezekiel chapter twenty eight. By the multitude
of thy merchandise, they have filled the midst of thee
with violence, and thou hast sinned. Therefore I will cast
thee as a profane out of the mountain of God.
And so the lesson is God's justice ensures that rebellion
is removed from his presence. I said, rebellion is removed
from the presence of God. Now. And the way we
do things on planet Earth these days, sometimes people reward rebellion.
Sometimes even at the highest seats of government, people are
rewarded for doing things opposite to the way that God
would have us do them sometimes, and we have seen
throughout ancient history when God had to deal with that.
In Nebuchadnezzar's day he dealt with it. In Doriasi's day,
he dealt with it, in Herod's day, Pilot's day, multiple
Pharaoh's days, he dealt with those problems. And so today
I need to examine my own relationships this week and
seek and seek reconciliation where there is conflict, and uphold
the truth in love. Uphold the truth in love. Shout
to Pastor MacFall talks about the truth in love. I
love it. On Sabbath morning. Okay, let's go now to
Revelation chapter fourteen and verse one. The Bible reads, and
low eyed looked, and a lamb stood on Mount Zion,
and with him one hundred and forty four thousand. So
redemption restores what was lost. See Lucifer out of Heaven,
God's people in the Mount of God. Lucifer kicked out
because of rebellion. God's people, including the one hundred and
forty four thousand, are with God in his presence in
his holy mountain. And so today I want you to
thank God in prayer that he's restoring He is restoring
you into his kingdom, and commit to being faithful to
him every single day. Yeah, God with our leadist I
will follow. Let that be your prayer today. Yes, yeah,
you are replacing where the evil angels used to be.
They didn't love God. They determined that they wanted to
do things the devil's way. Right, the devil didn't love God,
he wanted to do it his own way. And so yeah,
there's plenty good room in the kingdom for you. And
unfortunately the devil has made his decision. He's going where
he deserves. But you need to go and be with
God in his presence. 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,