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 thirteen,
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 rejoicing with gladness. Rejoicing with Gladness. We'll get into
that in just a moment, but first I'd like to
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build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and
then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, Thank you
for giving us this new day and for the opportunity
to rejoice. Thank you for putting us in a position
where we can turn away from our sins, that we
can yield our will to you, and that we can
rejoice with you and live eternally in Jesus name. I pray,
Amen and Amen again. Sometimes people feel guilty about the
idea of rejoicing, because of course we're living in the
last days. You understand this is a time where we
should be. We should be afflicting our souls before God
and asking Him to search us and see if there
be any wicked way in us. And that is true.
We should be searching our souls. We should have the
holy ghosts in our minds so that He can shine
the light on the reality of who we are. But
let me just say this that as we are being
reconciled to God, it's almost like when we are in
the ordinance of humility during the communion service. In those moments,
in those moments, in that service, we are to be
afflicting our souls. In those moments, we are to be
honest with God and to yield everything to him and
then and then to be forgiven and cleansed from our unrighteousness.
But after the ordinance of humiliation or humility, excuse me,
then we go to the Lord's Supper with rejoicing. You
understand where I'm going with this. So it is not
always afflicting of our souls, but it is afflicting of
our souls. It is not always bewilderment. But there are
times that we when we're being honest with ourselves and
with God, we are bewildered because we see the distance
between our souls and our Savior. But once that gap,
that bridge is divide, that divide is bridged, then there
is rejoicing. And so the Bible reads in Zechariah chapter three,
We're going back to that, and I'm reading from verses
five fifteen through seventeen. Okay, verse five. The Lord in
the midst of her is uncomfortab misingly righteous. He will
not do iniquity. Every morning he brings his justice to light.
He fails not. But the unjust person knows no shame. So,
by show of hands, how many of you are unjust?
Put your hands down. Unless you are not willing to
yield your will to God, don't put your hands up
unless you are holding on to your sin. If you
are holding onto your sin, then go ahead and put
your hands up. If you're holding onto your sin and
you don't know how to let those sins go, then
put your hand up. And today is the day that
you turn away from those sins. You allow God through
the Holy Ghost, to teach you the truth about yourself
and the truth about God. The truth about God is
that he's holy and just and good at all times.
He's one hundred percent righteous. And the truth about self
is that we are unholy. We are sold under sin
until or unless we allow the King of Kings to
redeem us. You understand where we're going with this, And
so the unjust person knows no shame. That person couldn't
care less what God thinks verse fifteen four. Then it
will be that the Lord has taken away the judgments
against you. Okay, he has cast out your enemy, the
king of Israel. Even the Lord himself is in the
midst of you. And after he has come to you,
you shall not experience experience or fear evil anymore. You
see those who are perfected in love, that fear is gone.
Cast out fear, fear hath torment. But those who are
perfected in love, according to John, those who are perfected
in love, those individuals stand boldly in the day of judgment.
Let me continue right here in verse sixteen. In that
day it shall be said of God's people or Jerusalem,
fear not o Zion, let your let not your hands
sink down, or be slow and listless. I said this
the other day. That means to be a shamed. Don't
be ashamed, don't be dejected, don't feel rejected, okay. Verse seventeen.
The Lord your God is in the midst of you,
and the Mighty One, the Savior who saves. He will
rejoice over you with joy. If God is rejoicing over
you with joy, how can you be discouraged? Hah. If
the Lord of hosts, the one who is righteous all
of the time, and his judgments are just. The one
who sees and knows all is rejoicing over you. Then
who are you to be bewildered? If you are yielding
your will to him? Do you understand where this conversation
is going. We're looking at it from God's lens, from
his perspective, not silly praise. We're not looking at our
own way to kind of positive think ourselves into a frenzy. No,
this says that the Lord who's in the midst of me,
the Lord who is our sin, in the midst of us,
he will rejoice over you with joy. That is, when
you yield your will to him, he will rest in
silent satisfaction and in his love. He will be silent
and make no mention of past sins or even recall them.
He will exalt over you with singing. So in my
mind I hear the word restoration. But really and truly,
that word is not enough. I wrote it in my notes,
but it's because I am at a loss for words,
like I cannot really generate the concept that is sufficient.
But I hear the word restoration. But it's better than restoration.
If it were restoration, it would be back to the
way that it was with Adam and Eve, like back then.
But that's not good enough. See, it has to be
better than that. It has to be better than that.
The new heavens and the new Earth have to be
better than that. Ah, there will be no more affliction.
Affliction shall not rise a second time. See that's better
than that. Like now are we the sons of God?
And it does not yet appear what we shall be.
You see what we shall be. It will be better
than that what we shall be. But we know that
when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for
we shall see him as he is. Let those who
have this hope in yourselves, Please, would you purify yourself
even as he is pure? And so this restoration, this
rejoicing and singing, is like the story of the prodigal
when he comes home after exhausting everything on riotous living.
He is there to the point that he is basically
congregating with pigs. This boy, who is supposed to be clean,
is now congregating with pigs. He's already burnt everything with
Harlot's He's already lost all of his soul called friends,
and now He is going to his father, and his
father does not accept as a servant. His father doesn't
simply restore him. His father exalts over him. He is
with joy and singing and smiling and asking people come
rejoice with me, for my son who was lost is found.
The one who was dead is now alive again. Now
let me ask you a question. Do you want God
to rejoice over you? Do you want him to rejoice
over you? This is all you need to do. Surrender
your will to him. Today's the day that you cooperate
with him, that you allow him to write his laws
in your heart and on your mind, so that you
can live according to his principles.
Speaker 1: And the joy of the Lord will be Thanks for
joining us, listening to 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,