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 Tuesday, March
twenty five, 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 the
final week of our lessons study series, God's Love and
Justice under the caption Law and Grace. We're talking about
law and grace. Before we get into that, I'd like
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Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day,
this morning that has in it all of your calling,
all of your blessing. Please give us your understanding Father,
and teach us to serve you with everything we have
and everything we are in Jesus name, I pray, Amen
and Amen again. All right, let me just go ahead
and begin with a newsflash. Grace does not replace God's law. Man,
I just say that one more time. Newsflash like this
just in Grace does not replace God's law. In fact,
grace gives us the ability to keep God's law. And
you're like, come on, Dave, that sounds like some legalistic stuff.
Just give me a second. I want you to define grace.
You can look it up in dictionaries. I want you
to look it up, especially in both Hebrew and Greek
dictionaries and concordances, and you let me know what you find.
Let me tell you what I have found. Grace is
number one unmerited favor. God gives us favor when we
don't deserve it. We're sinners saved by grace he gives us,
or I should say saved by grace. We're sinners that
are being saved by God. Let me say it that way,
And Grace says He's doing it not because we deserve it.
He's doing it because He loves us. Okay, unmerited favor,
we cannot earn it. But it's also power to do
God's will. Unmerited favor number one, number two, power to
do God's will. You see what happens when you have
these little these little gestures enabled on these platforms. Okay,
so well, what is God's will? There are so many
places in scripture that we read where God's will is,
but the baseline, the foundation for all of those is
right in the commandments like those are a manifestation of
the character of God or a transcript as we like
to say of his character, that is God's will, and
if we love him, he has promised that he will
act out his will through us, you see. And so
the law of God can only be kept by humans
by the grace that God instills in us to have favor.
We're alive, and we shouldn't be alive. We should be
already suffering the second death. And number two, we are
empowered now to do His will. And so what we're
going to do is read now beginning at verse thirty
one from Jeremiah, chapter thirty one, and make more sense
of it. And the Bible reads, behold, the days come
set the Lord that I will make a new covenant
with the House of Israel and with the House of Judah.
Let me just ask you a quick question. Where in
the Bible does the Book of Jeremiah fall. Is it
in the Old Testament or in the New Testament? Or
hold on before you before you tell me. Is it
in the Old Covenant part of the Bible or in
the New Covenant? Somebody just learned something. You're scratching your head.
Some of you just learned something. So Testament and Covenant
same word, Old Covenant, New Covenant Old Testament, New Testament.
And so when God is now giving us understanding concerning
this reality that I'm about to read about, He's giving
it to us in the Old Covenant dispensation, the Old Testament,
that is, before Jesus took on human flesh to manifest
to the world who God is, to keep the law perfectly.
And then for those who live with him, live for
him by faith, give us the ability to do the same.
And of course he gave his life, he gave his life,
he took his life back up again, and now he
is in heavenly places doing a very special and unique ministry.
And I'm thankful, okay. And so God is now giving
us a sneak peek into the power way back then.
So for those who are New Covenant in Air quotes Christians,
people who believe in the New Covenant, I believe in
the New Covenant. Yes, well, if you believe in the
New Covenant, then you believe in what we're reading here here.
It comes here. It comes with the House of Israel
and with the House of Judah. Not according to the
covenant that I made with their fathers in the day
that I took them by the hand and pulled them
out of the land of Egypt, which my covenant they break.
You see, they broke it. They did not have the
strength to keep the covenant, the law. They had no
strength to do it. But this shall be the covenant
that I will make with the House of Israel. After
those days, I actually gave you a sneak peak of
what we're saying. Here set the Lord. I will put
my law, what law God, the Ten Commandments law in
their inward parts, and I will write it in their
hearts in the same way that God inscribed emblazoned upon
the tables of sapphire stone. They were not gray, they
were not bige. They didn't look like some kind of
granite that we would put on our countertops at the house.
They were sapphire. That blue, according to the Book of Numbers,
actually represents the law of God. That the people of God,
when they would see the blue tassel or riband on
their clothes at the border him border of their garments,
they would be reminded of the law of God, and
that those tables of stone were actually taken out of
the actual throne of God. And then God inscribed with
his own finger the law of God and now he's
saying He's going to do that on your hearts, brothers
and sisters. Yeah, he's like, oh, but that says the
House of Israel. Well, a lot of people say that
they're new covenant Christians. I don't see a text that
says anything about covenant with Christians. I see what the
House of Israel. And that means that he's right when
he said of Abraham that those who are baptized into
Christ are abraham seed and heirs according to the promise.
And so we become the House of Israel if we
keep covenant with God. If we are baptized into Christ,
we become cat We become covenant keepers. And therefore we
are able to live according to God's principles. Let me
keep going. Let me keep going. And he said that
I will put my law in their inward parts and
write it in their hearts, and be their God, and
they shall be my people. What a promise. And they
shall teach no more, every man his neighbor and every
man his brother, saying no the Lord, for they shall
all know Me, from the least of them unto the greatest.
So many other passages we could read in John chapter
three run through twenty one. But the Bible is teaching
us that God is writing his law in our hearts.
God is showing us that when he does that we
become obedient. We have direct knowledge of God, we have
forgiveness of sin, we have new spiritual life, we have
kingdom citizenship, and we are transformed in our nature. Why
because God has kept his promise that if you will
submit your will to him, his law will become a
part of your lifestyle.
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,