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 Sabbath, November
twenty nine, 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 this Sabbath
morning in our Lessons study series, Lessons of Faith from Joshua.
This is lesson number ten of thirteen under the caption
the True Joshua, The True Joshua. We'll get into that
in just a moment, but first I'd like to say
welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for
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faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and get underway. Father.
We thank you for this day, this good Sabbath morning,
for us to reconnect with you in a special way. Father,
thank you for the experience that we had last night
on our musical worship experience. Father, and I pray that
this Sabbath we will really in fact and indeed rest
in You. There is so much destruction, so much tragedy,
so many trials, But Father, you have called us not
to focus there, but to focus our minds on on You,
focus on the true Joshua, Jesus Christ, and please help
us to do it in Jesus name. I pray, Amen
and Amen again, the true Joshua. So I gave it away.
I gave it away. Yeah, Jesus Christ is the true deliverer.
The true deliverer is Jesus Christ. And I'm very excited
about this because sometimes we mix our focus up, we
mix our focus up. We see these images that are
supposedly Jesus even in the Sabbath school quarterly or the
adults study guide that are supposedly representing Jesus. But the
fact is that Jesus is high and above all of
these representations. Joshua, even as the faithful man of God,
was a symbol or a shadow of Jesus Christ himself,
the ultimate warrior, commander of the heavenly hosts, the ultimate deliverer,
the ultimate God. Blessed be his name in the flesh,
Jesus Christ the Righteous. And so the Bible says in
First Corinthians, Chapter ten and verse eleven. Now these things
happened unto them, for in samples that they are written
for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world
are come. And if you read the next couple of verses,
you see that there are people that Paul is speaking
to that you know what, You might become proud and say,
how could they, pointing back into history, and say, how
could they have missed all of those signs that God
had given? How could they have dropped the ball so
many different ways in their spiritual health? How could they
have just disrespected God in the way that they did.
And he said, if anybody thinks they stand take heed,
let's g fall, But God didn't leave us there. He
didn't leave us there. In the next passage, it says
in verse thirteen that God, there hath no temptation taken us,
but such as is common to men. Like we are
all in the same bus. We're all in the same boat,
like humans all go through very similar mind and spirituality trials.
And God is saying that that is not unusual. There
is no temptation taken you, but such as is common
to all humanity. But God is faithful. See, this is
the thing we focus on God. We don't focus on
all of the mistakes that the people of God made.
We don't focus on well, I wouldn't make that mistake.
We don't focus on well I come from a resilient people,
and we always rise from the ashes. No, our focus
is for God is faithful, who will, with the temptation
take make a way of escape that we may be
able to bear it. So God is the one who
gives us the ability to overcome any trial, any temptation,
and march right through to the fullness of the promise.
Jesus is greater than Joshua. That's an understatement. The name
Joshua in Hebrew is Yahoshua pronounced of course yahos Shua,
meaning Yahweh blessed be his name saves. This is the
same root of Joshua or Yeshua, the Hebrew form of Jesus.
Just as Joshua led God's people into the promised land,
Jesus leads his people into heaven and then the earth
made new. Both call for faith and obedience, but only
Jesus Christ himself. Only he completes the victory over sin
and death. And so the action in this regard is
to invite Jesus, the real Jesus, well, the real Jesus,
stand up, and all of these images and pictures and
all kinds of relics and representation and shadows they need
to sit down. Let the real Jesus lead you daily
as your captain. Surrender your will in each battle to
him before you take your first step. Lesson number two
comes in from Hebrews Chapter four, verses eight and nine.
For Joshua had given them rest. For if part of
me scratch that, don't quote me here. Let's go again.
For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not
have spoken afterward about another day. Consequently, a sabbath. Rest
remains for the people of God. And so Joshua did
what Joshua was supposed to do. God was with him
like he was with Moses, just like God had promised.
Joshua led the people of God into a mindset of
promise and physical Canaan. That second generation of God's people
who had left Egypt went into the promise praise God.
But that was not the end of the story. You see,
God shows us in the Seventh Day Sabbath the kind
of rest that we can have in Christ. See in
the Seventh Day Sabbath. The Bible says in the Old
Testament Bible Book of Ezekiel that the Sabbath is a
sign or a signal that he God is the one
which sanctifies us. God is the one that makes us holy.
He's the one that sets us aside for a holy use.
He's the one that is leading us to Zion, beautiful,
beautiful Zion. And I'm grateful because if in fact Joshua
was it, then that means that we're cooked, like we
wouldn't be able to get in because Joshua's been dead
and every other Holy leader been dead I'm talking about
from that ear. And so we have Jesus Christ leading us,
and the Greek word for rest in this particular text
meaning ceasing or a settling into peace. It shows that
Joshua's leadership could not produce the final version of that
because it is only found in Christ. The call to
enter God's rest is not limited to a location, but
extended into relationship. We trust in Jesus's finished work. Jesus
he gave his life on the cross to save us
from our sins. Jesus he came through the tomb and
woke up with his own power, unborrowed underrived on that
wonderful Sunday morning. And after he did that, he went
into heaven. Ultimately went in heaven, and he effected our forgiveness.
And all of those years later, eighteen hundred plus years later,
exactly eighteen hundred and ten years later, now Jesus enters
into what his ministry, his high priestly ministry, so that
we can be cleansed from all unrighteousness. And one day
Jesus Christ will return for a people who are cleansed.
And so today today our action step in this regard
is to pause, take a pause, and rest in the
assurance of salvation through Christ. Let your obedience flow from peace,
from the peace of God, and yield your will every
single day as a lord your strength. Make it a
great sabbath 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.