Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host
Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Friday, July
Speaker 2: twenty six, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El
Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host den This is your
Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,
Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
Speaker 2: lessons study series through the Book of Mark, and our
Speaker 2: caption for today is love in Action, Love in Action.
Speaker 2: Before we get into that, I'd like to just welcome
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Speaker 2: that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go
Speaker 2: ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father
Speaker 2: in Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day
Speaker 2: and for this day and time of preparation before the
Speaker 2: Sabbath hours. Father, I pray that you will teach us
Speaker 2: how to love in a new way. And I pray
Speaker 2: that you will fill us with your Holy spirit so
Speaker 2: that we can do your will in Jesus name. I
Speaker 2: pray Amen and Amen again. Love in action. We're going
Speaker 2: to go ahead and begin by reading directly out of
Speaker 2: the lesson from the book Christ's object Lessons, pages four,
Speaker 2: pages forty eight and forty nine. Christ Object Lessons, pages
Speaker 2: forty eight and forty nine. And the Bible reads, I mean, huh,
Speaker 2: I'm so used to saying the Bible and it reads
Speaker 2: true holiness is wholeness in the service of God. We
Speaker 2: could really just stop right here and don't say anything more.
Speaker 2: True holiness is wholeness in the service of God. Have
Speaker 2: you ever been in an environment where people who say
Speaker 2: we love God are doing service for him? But really
Speaker 2: it's a selfish approach for us to posture. It's an
Speaker 2: approach for us to make ourselves feel good. Or maybe
Speaker 2: it's a checklist type of religion that says well during
Speaker 2: the week, and we don't say it actively, like it's
Speaker 2: not something that we premeditate, but we really in effect
Speaker 2: we say okay. Throughout the week, I will say one
Speaker 2: or two things that are positive, and I may put
Speaker 2: His name in a sense, meaning God's name in a sentence,
Speaker 2: and I may click share on WhatsApp and spam a
Speaker 2: lot of people. But on Sabbath, what I'm going to
Speaker 2: do is exhaust myself with all kinds of extra stuff.
Speaker 2: I'm going to go through a list of five or
Speaker 2: six things and tax myself that are you know, things
Speaker 2: that are service like, and tax my energy. And then
Speaker 2: Sunday maybe I'll do one more thing. And then through
Speaker 2: the rest of the week it's back to the first
Speaker 2: thing that I mentioned, And it's rinse and repeat, rinse
Speaker 2: and repeat, rinse and repeat. And it's like, hmm, is
Speaker 2: that a wholeness way of holiness? Is it that we
Speaker 2: need to like sort of find a way to come
Speaker 2: up with a plan where we generate some kind of
Speaker 2: activity that makes us feel like we're holy. You see
Speaker 2: how stressful that is, And you're like, well, what are
Speaker 2: you even talking about Yeah, let those who have an
Speaker 2: ear here what I'm saying. There are some people who
Speaker 2: wait for key opportunities to do things that are related
Speaker 2: to God, and then throughout the week we serve ourselves.
Speaker 2: Maybe it's the simplest way to say it. Let me continue.
Speaker 2: True holiness is wholeness in the service of God. This
Speaker 2: is the condition of true Christian living. Christ asks for
Speaker 2: unreserved consecration, for undivided service. Can I just add here,
Speaker 2: like contemporary language, like even when I'm watching YouTube for
Speaker 2: those of you who subscribe to some of those channels
Speaker 2: like Netflix and other channels, or you have smart TVs
Speaker 2: with all kinds of content coming into them, or your
Speaker 2: cell phone has all kinds of content on the social
Speaker 2: media platforms, even when even when I am scrolling through
Speaker 2: that stuff, swiping left, wiping right. If I am single
Speaker 2: looking for a suitable partner, what am I looking for?
Speaker 2: Am I giving undivided service? Even in my entertainment, in
Speaker 2: my thought life, in my prayer life? When I wake up?
Speaker 2: What is first on my mind? Let me continue reading.
Speaker 2: He demands the heart, the mind, the soul, the strength.
Speaker 2: Self is not to be cherished. He who lives to
Speaker 2: himself is not a Christian. Let me say that one
Speaker 2: more time, and I'm reading it for me too. He
Speaker 2: who lives to himself is not a Christian. There are
Speaker 2: times that you may feel desperate in terms of in
Speaker 2: terms of your business dealings or your job, and you
Speaker 2: put in more hours than you should put in more
Speaker 2: hours in an unhealthy way. You work sixty hours a
Speaker 2: week instead of thirty something hours a week or twenty
Speaker 2: something hours. You work one hundred hours a week. You
Speaker 2: work when you get home when you could be resting
Speaker 2: or building a relationship with your family. There are times
Speaker 2: that you take work to the bedroom. There are people
Speaker 2: who are workaholics. Is that is that something that God
Speaker 2: would approve of self is not to be cherished. He
Speaker 2: who lives to himself is not a Christian. But I
Speaker 2: have to do this because my family is relying on me. Well.
Speaker 2: Is that holiness? Is that temperance? Is that allowing God
Speaker 2: to be God and doing good and honest labor and
Speaker 2: then resting when we need to rest, rejuvenate, connect with
Speaker 2: people in a healthy way. Huh, and also get ready
Speaker 2: to hear from His voice so we can go back
Speaker 2: into the market and do what we are called to
Speaker 2: do there or is it out of balance? Let me
Speaker 2: continue reading. You're like, Dave, come on, man, this is
Speaker 2: not spiritual. Well, everything that we do in life is ritual.
Speaker 2: Everything that we do in life are conversations with people.
Speaker 2: How we behave on the road. Listen, my son and
Speaker 2: I were driving, not driving, we we were we were
Speaker 2: at a car meet. He likes to look at special
Speaker 2: kinds of vehicles. We were in a car at a
Speaker 2: car meet one time, and we saw that in the
Speaker 2: in the street, there was some traffic right and somebody,
Speaker 2: you know, a couple of people did some things that
Speaker 2: didn't make any sense. And then we heard we saw
Speaker 2: a vehicle stop. We saw the driver turn and say
Speaker 2: all kinds of stuff that wow in a way that yeah,
Speaker 2: you're you're just like wow, that person was rude. And
Speaker 2: then and then just Scia said, Hey, isn't that so
Speaker 2: and so from such and such a church? And I
Speaker 2: looked and I said, oh Lord, yes, that was so
Speaker 2: and so from such and such a church. So how
Speaker 2: are we when we're on the road, when people behave
Speaker 2: in a way that we don't like, do we give
Speaker 2: them that same kind of energy that's not becoming of
Speaker 2: a believer something to think about. Love must be the
Speaker 2: principle of action. Love is the underlying principle of God's
Speaker 2: government in heaven and on earth, and it must be
Speaker 2: the foundation of the Christian's character. This alone can make
Speaker 2: and keep him steadfast. This alone can enable him to
Speaker 2: withstand trial and temptation. One more paragraph, and love will
Speaker 2: be revealed in sacrifice. So we don't leave God with
Speaker 2: the energy that we have left. We don't give him
Speaker 2: second best. We don't leave for him the resources he's
Speaker 2: entrusted to us. We don't break off a little bit
Speaker 2: and tip him as if he's a server at a
Speaker 2: table at a restaurant. After we've done everything we want
Speaker 2: to do with the resources he's given to us, then
Speaker 2: we just break off a little bit and say, Okay, here, God,
Speaker 2: here's here's my monthly minimum. I hope you can do
Speaker 2: something with this. Let me keep reading, Let me keep reading.
Speaker 2: The Plan of redemption. Oh sorry, Yeah, the plan of
Speaker 2: redemption was laid in sacrifice, a sacrifice so broad and
Speaker 2: deep and high that it is immeasurable. Christ gave all
Speaker 2: for us, and those who received Christ will be ready
Speaker 2: to sacrifice all for the sake of their Redeemer. The
Speaker 2: thought of his honor and glory will come before anything else.
Speaker 2: This was not a rambling day, this Friday, this preparation day.
Speaker 2: This was a day for us to really look into
Speaker 2: all of the areas of our lives by the power
Speaker 2: of the Holy Ghost, and say, God, what would you
Speaker 2: have me to do? But what you have me not
Speaker 2: to do? Whatever it is, please let it be.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us. Listen to friends. Always remember we
Speaker 1: cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that
Speaker 1: comes from the mouth of God. This has been your
Speaker 1: daily portion with el David Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,