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 Wednesday's June
twenty five and 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. We're mid week how to
study Bible Prophecy, and our caption for today is the
drying of the euphrates. Yes, of the euphrates. We'll come
back to that in just a moment, but first I'd
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ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father,
We thank you for this day. Please teach us your ways,
help us to surrender to your will in Jesus name. Pray,
Amen and amen again. Yeah, all right? Is the handwriting
on the wall in your life? Like, really, Dave, you're
going to start right there. Yes, is the handwriting, hand
writing of God on the wall of your life. Well,
what are we talking about? We were talking about humility yesterday.
So much we could have said, and indeed maybe should
have said, but so little time we did not. Read
from the Bible Book of Daniel, chapter five and verse
twenty five. It'll be the precursor to what we'll talk
about today. And the Bible reads some of what it
says here and this writing so while bel Shazar was
in his pride and they were reveling and having a great,
big old party, even though God had already shown him
in his own history, had already shown him what it
was like in the history of the generations of folks
who decided, all of those leaders who decided to erect
idols in place of God, to disrespect God and his people.
The handwriting was about to be on the wall about
what would happen in Belshazzar's actual time this moment in
history and the Bible reads, while these dudes were drunken,
while they were in their greatest level of pride, there
was a hand that had no body, that had no
blood dripping from it, just a hand, and it began
to write, and it wrote in the language of the
people who were present. And now this hand mysteriously appears
and begins to write, and it writes this way Mini
Mini teckle Eupharsin Mani Mini tackle Epharsin, And it says, basically,
your life is weighed in the balance, and you are
found woefully wanting your life. The preview of the review
of your life in judgment has been now manifest in reality,
and as it is weighed against the justice of God,
as it is weighed against the love of God, as
it is weighed against what God has revealed, so that
you can live your best life. People talk about it
on the internet. They don't even know what they're talking about.
Half the time. It's not buying cars and having time,
just time with your family, which I love, by the way. Ah, Yeah,
it's about eternity with God. Living your best life leads
to eternity with God because this life alone is not enough.
It's not enough. I don't care what your level of
saying excess is. But when God weighs your life in
the balance, are you found covered in the righteousness of
Jesus Christ? Are you found woefully wanting? And so God
weighs individuals and nations. I need you if you are
a leader in any nation around the world, if you
are at the local level, if you at a higher level,
if you are at the national level, I want you
to hear this and hear it well. God weighs all
of us individuals and nations based on the responsibility that
He has given to us. Every life will be reviewed,
every action, every intent, every thought, every inaction, and it
will be reviewed in final judgment. Am I trying to
say it to cause fear to rise up in you know?
Because the Bible says that you know, perfect love casts
out fear, for fear has torment. Yes, those who are
perfected in love have no need to fear in the judgment,
you understand. But there are those who ignore the warnings.
There are those who figure, by the stroke of a pen,
can just make history go away. The Bible teaches us
that we have the privilege to live transparently before God.
Ask him daily to weigh your heart. I will do
the same. I do the same, and to correct me
even now. And so now the bloodless hand has written
the reality. So let it be written. So let it
be done. And now. One of Babylon's strengths was the
way the Euphrates river float underneath her walls, as the
lesson writer pens, providing the city with an unlimited water supply.
By the way, I'm obsessed by pottable water, the kind
you can drink and be. As we say in Jamaica,
water is life. Yes, it also proved to her to
be her weakness. Uh oh, no, wait a minute. Oh.
An ancient Babylonian queen had created in earthen works along
the river in order to develop it as a route
to the city, and in the progress process, had diverted
the river into a swamp in order to allow crews
to work comfortably. Wait a minute, Cyrus, remember Cyrus is
the one who basically is a symbol of Christ in
this story, realized that he could do the same thing,
drying up the euphrates enough that he could comfortably Marchish
troops under the wall. So while Babylon felt like they
thought that they would be in undefeatable, they thought that
they would be on the world stage forever and ever.
As as the head of gold Nebuchadnezza learned before he
died that that ain't the case. But his generations after
him clearly missed that memo. And uh yeah, while they're
in their party, and while God has put the handwriting
on the wall that they are coming up short. They're drunken,
and they're using the things of God to fix in
their mind, fix their time and history. And God is like, no, no, no, no,
that's not about to happen. Mm hmmm. He found the
defensive walls that followed the river through the city unguarded,
and the city fell in a single night. The ancient
Greek historian heroted to Us tells us that those who
lived in the center of Babylon had no idea that
the suburbs had fallen, for it was a time of festival.
All were dancing, indulging themselves in pleasures, in pleasures that
were ungodly. While people are having freak offs and parties,
they are unbeknownst to them, the lives are weighed in
the balance, and their lives are found wanting. Somebody just
heard me, And in the last of the last days,
the reality still holds true. While God is shining a
light on his truth, shining a light on his covenant,
including those ten commandments that he writes in the hearts
of the people who choose to love him. While he's
shining the light on the righteousness of Christ, there are
people who say, no, no, no, no, We're going to
do it our own way. Well, God forbid that anybody
listening to my voice at this moment should be found wanting,
including me, make it a great day.
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,