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 Monday, January
twenty 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, God's Love and Justice. Our caption for today
is gut wrenching Love. Gut wrenching Love. We'll get into
that in just a moment, but first I like to
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and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we
will get underway. Bather and Heaven, thank you for giving
us this new day and for the opportunity to experience
your love in a special and new way. Father, Please
fill us with your holy spirit and help us to
be faith full to you in every detail. In Jesus' name,
I pray, Amen and Amen again, gut wrenching love. Woh yes,
I'm not going to us say much here Before we
read the text. Let's go ahead into Hosea chapter eleven.
Hoseah chapter eleven, and I will read beginning at verse
one Hosea chapter eleven, and I will read beginning at
verse one, and the Bible reads, when Israel was a
young man, I loved him like a son, and I
summoned my son out of Egypt but the more I
summoned them, the farther they departed from me. Can you
imagine when God is delivering his people from captivity. They
came from a time of prosperity when Joseph was still
around and his influence was still evident and prevalent in Egypt. Yes,
and then at some point there was a pharaoh who
was paranoid. Really, that's how I see it, who said,
you know what, I don't know Joseph, but these people,
they're multiplying. They're going to get out of hand, and
they are going to revolt against me. So what we're
gonna do is enslave them. And then this started years
in years and years of oppression and slavery, and the
Bible says that God is now delivering his people according
to Exodus chapter I think it's three. Sometimes I mix
up the two chapters three or six, where God says,
I heard the groanings of my people, and now I'm
going to deliver them. I am going to introduce to you,
Moses myself by a name that I've not introduced myself
to any of the patriarchs, to Abraham, to Isaac, or
to Jacob. It is the name Yahweh or Jehovah, blessed
be his name. I'm going to introduce myself in a
way that you will know. I self exist, and I'm eternal, yes,
but I am all powerful. Yes, but I can still
hear your cries in the darkness. I am massively powerful,
and yet I can still come close to you and
hear when you need me. Okay. And so now God
is delivering his people. And the more he delivers his people,
the more they revolt, the more they want to go
back into slavery. The more he gives you victory over
substances you used to get drunk, and he is giving
you the ability and the power to walk away. You've
been cleaned for one week, two weeks, three weeks, but
now you're going back into that sin. He's giving you
victory over your anger management challenges. And the more that
you are being delivered is the more you decide, you
know what, forget this. This person should never have pushed
my buttons in this way. I could go down through
the list, but you see where we're going with this.
They sacrifice. The Bible continues in verse two to the
bail idols and burn incense to images. Yet it was
I who let e frim. I took them by the arm,
but they did not acknowledge that I had healed them.
You see, God has positioned us to be delivered from
any besetting sin, that thing that you promised God that
if you would, he would deliver you from. Huh, if
he would deliver you from then you promised that you would,
you would follow him with all that you have and
all that you are. And then when he he does,
and you forget that, you see verse four. I drew
them with leather cords, with straps of hide. I lifted
the yoke from their neck and gently fed them. They
will return to Egypt. The Syria will rule over them
because they refuse to repent. God is just saying, just
give everything to me. Turn away from your sins. I'm
going to deliver you from the burden of the guilt.
I'm going to deliver you from the yoke that causes
you to have to do those things. I'm going to
deliver you, give you the ability to say no to
the enemy. And yet sometimes God's people, sometimes God's people
turned back into sin. Verse six. A sword will flash
into their cities. I will destroy the bars of the
city of their gates, and I will devour them in
their fortresses. My people are obsessed with turning away from me.
They called to Bao. What kinds of relationships are you
calling to? Brothers and sisters? If any, I mean you
may not be in this story here, but for those
who do, what are you calling unto? Are you saying
we don't know where God is, Please build us a
golden calf? Or are you saying you know what? Like
King Saul, he said, God isn't answering my prayer, So
I'm going to go to a witch. You're going to
palm readers, brothers and sisters, I hope not. How you
go into the tarot cards, you go into astrology, you
go into some of these other situations that are leading
away from God. Relics? Are you? I hope not? But
today is your day? Like you can turn to God
today if you will yield your will to him. My
people are obsessed with turning away from me. They go
to bail Ah, but he will never exalt them. How
can I give you up, o Ephraim? How can I
surrender you, oh Israel? How can I treat you like Adma?
How can I make you like Ziboyem, I have had
a change of heart. You see, all my tender compassions
are aroused. You see, God has a way of saying,
you know what I feel away because my people have
turned away from me. I want to chide them, and
I indeed will. I want to destroy them. But now
I'm having second thoughts. I love you with everlasting love,
and therefore with loving kindness I have drawn you verse nine.
I cannot carry out my fierce anger. I cannot totally
destroy Ephriom because I am God and not man. Holy.
When among you, I will not come in wrath. This
is a very interesting discussion to me, because God is
completely just blessed be his name. He is righteous one
hundred percent of the time in his presence. He cannot
tolerate wickedness because wickedness becomes flammable in his presence. It
gets destroyed in his presence if he does not mix
his presence with mercy. The essence of who God is
is destructive to evil. And yet, and yet sometimes we
stumble and bumble into God's presence with evil and unconfessed sin.
Sometimes we go into his presence beating our chest like
King Kong, say I'm here, I'm here, I'm here, and
don't really care that God is holy, don't even care
that He has been merciful to us, and then flaunt
our sin in his face. And he's saying, but why
will you die, my people? Why turn yourselves and live?
And so God's love is gut wrenching. Can you imagine
how he feels when he sees us going down the
wrong path? I wish I had the time, but let
me just say, even though God is merciful, even though
he is kind, Please, brothers and sisters, let today be
the day that you stop taking God for granted, He
has gut wrenching love for you. 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,