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.
Speaker 2: Vibrant lives.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker
Elle David Harris.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Monday at
September one, 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 through the Book of Exodus, and our
caption for today is seeing God Oo Seeing God. That's serious.
Before we get into that, I'd like to just say
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Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father,
Thank you, Thank you for giving us the privilege of
being here with you. Please teach us, teach us to
see You in all that we say and do. Help
us to practice the visible presence of God. In Jesus name,
I pray, Amen and Amen again. Seeing God, Oh, have
you seen God in your life? I'm not trying to
be melodramatic. I'm not saying has He appeared before you
in a form that you recognize? I'm saying in the
things that you do, like in your family experience, do
you see the handiwork of God? Do you see Him
in your professional life? In how you're able to relate
to the people and also get to the success that
you require as a person who is a professional at
whatever you do. It doesn't matter what you do. Huh.
Are you seeing God in your personal understanding of self?
When you reflect on you? Are you being honest with
you and then learning how to relate to you and
to other people? Are you seeing God in your life?
That's what I'm asking you, because one day those who
see God in all that we experience on a day
to day basis, even in the mundane things, we will
actually see Him face to face. You see, when Jesus comes,
we're finally going to see him face to face without sin.
The Bible says, unto salvation. Finally we'll be able to say, Lo,
this is our God. We have waited for him, and
he is finally here, like he's about to save us
in the realist possible sense. And so the lesson writer
gives us an experience that the Bible identifies after the
first or the firm excuse me, re establishment of the
covenant with God. Moses again climbed Sinai, the Mount Sinai.
In the beginning of this climb, Moses was not alone.
So I want you to see the stations that I
mentioned to you yesterday at the base of the mountain.
We see in the Bible that Moses was to set
bounds at the base of the mount. So nobody who's
not supposed to come up the mount will come up
the mount, not beast, not human. Only the people that
God welcome into the space beyond the boundary is supposed
to are supposed to come. So at the base of
the mount you have those who are doing what giving sacrifice.
They are worshiping. And now we see that there is
a track up the mount. And the Bible says in
the beginning of I mean and the lesson writer says,
in the beginning of the climb, Moses was not alone.
He had an excellent company of seventy three Israelite leaders. Okay,
so people at the base of the mount, they're not
passing the boundary. Now seventy three leaders from among the
people of God has started the journey. So we have
the outer court beyond the bounds, backward where the sacrifices
are happening. You cross that line and you go into
the mount. Seventy three leaders for the leaders, this was
the pinnacle experience. The Bible actually teaches us that they
saw in air quotes God. This is a theophany, and
twice in the text it underlines this amazing reality. And
let me just say, the Bible, when you read the experience,
says that God basically allowed them to see whatever he
revealed of himself and they lived. You see what I'm saying, Like,
they saw whatever He revealed of himself, and they lived.
So you have the people at the base of the
mount somebody's visualizing, you're seeing it beyond the boundary going backward.
That is what I would consider to be like the
outer court where the sacrifice is happening. Seventy three people
go in with Moses to a certain point in the mountain,
and they experienced God at a whole new level and twice.
The text underlines this amazing reality. This was also a
time for the leaders by eating together. The Bible actually
says they were eating and drinking. What happened in the
Holy place, among other things? Was there a table of
show bread? Mm where there that had? Oh wait a minute,
so God is giving us a view of the sanctuary already.
And so they were eating together to seal the covenant
with God. This was a banquet, and the God of
Israel was their host. These leaders were deeply honored by God.
Eating together was a privilege in the customs that they
were were with. Yes. In fact, I think the Bible
says in Revelation chapter three, Behold, I stand at the
door and knock, And if any man hears my voice
and opens the door, I will come in to him,
and I will sup with him. And he with me.
So in the text, if you understand it properly, God
is the one that brings dinner. Once we open the
door and allow him into our homes, into our lives,
every detail of our lives, every crooked crevice of our lives,
then he's the one that brings dinner. He brings dinner,
which means that He is there for us to eat
and drink of Christ. As in John chapter six, those
who eat my flesh and drink my blood, those individuals
will be saved. And of course he's not talking about cannibalism.
He's talking about imbibing, imbibing Christ as a way of life.
And so now we go into our first lesson for today.
I said a lot, but let's see what we can
get here. In Exodus, chapter twenty four and verse ten,
the Bible reads, and they saw the God of Israel,
and there was under his feet, as it were, a
paved work of a sapphire stone. Look up, sapphire stone,
that's blue. And as it were the body of Heaven
and his clearness. So the paved work, I'm gonna have
to fast forward. The throne it's and the ten commandments
law were sapphire I wish I had the time. Now
with AI, you can actually look this up. I haven't
done it before. I did it with Google just a
normal way when I was studying many years ago. I'm
going to go and do the thing with AI too,
because I know what the reality is in history. See
what color the Ten Commandments stones were or tablets, and
then see why or from where the tablets were cut.
And you're going to see some stuff that maybe you
haven't considered before, and ask the machine to tell you,
like to prove it from history, from the Bible as well. Okay,
and so now they're seeing this. The leaders saw God
and shared a covenant meal with him. It was relationship,
and then later some fell into rebellion. What Yeah, Divine
presence never replaces daily surrender. So just like just because
you had an experience with God yesterday or five minutes ago,
it doesn't mean that that's going to carry you. It's
time to have the kind of relationship that is instantaneous.
Like at all times we are trusting in God and
not thinking about, oh, what has happened in the past,
But in this present moment, am I connected with God? Okay?
And so in Exodus twenty four and verse twelve. We
need to learn that God's call to worship always involves
us coming near to Him. And then, finally, sacred rituals
like the Covenant meal are meant to remind us of
grace and responsibility to God. Make it a great day.
Thanks for joining us listening. Friends.
Speaker 1: 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,