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 Sunday. It's
September twenty 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 final week in our lesson study series, Exodus
exod Us, and our caption for today is the Sabbath
of the Lord. The Sabbath of the Lord. We'll get
into that in just a moment, but first i'd like
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go ahead and pray and get underway. Father, We thank you,
Thank you for giving us the privilege of experiencing You
and experiencing your word and your truth as we study
a little bit about the Sabbath, when not a whole
lot today, help us to get the truth that is
in Christ. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen
again the Sabbath of the Lord. Now, let me just
go ahead and read from Exodus chapter thirty five. Exodus
chapter thirty five, and I will read verses one through three,
and the Bible reads. Then Moses gathered all the congregation
of the children of Israel together and said to them,
these are the words which the Lord has commanded you
to do Verse two, work shall be done for six days.
I don't know where we get the five day work week,
and I do understand where the four day one came from,
because that's a business principle. Yes, shout to the authors
who came up with that concept. But in reality, in reality,
God has given us six days for our normal, servile labor,
our normal work to be done. But that's a conjunction,
means it negates. So for six days you're free to work.
I'm empowering you to work. I'm empowering you to do
those mundane things that may change the world in fact
and indeed, but they are of a non holy or
secular nature. We're I'm talking about evil. We're talking about
things that are just normal, everyday things. Do that for
six days. Do all your buying and selling. Do that
during the six days Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
But the seventh day shall be a holy day for you,
a sabbath of rest to the Lord. Whoever does any
work I preempted myself that means servile labor on it.
Look that up shall be put to death. You shall
kindle no fire throughout your dwellings on the Sabbath. And
so we're not going to drill that passage to the
extreme detail except to say that God had made himself
clear multiple times throughout history. Eve, I'm talking about up
until this point that the holy seventh Day Sabbath was
was key to good relationship with God. And of course
subsequent to that time he made the point even more.
But in Exodus chapter sixteen, before God ever gave tables
of Stone, God showed his people the Sabbath that we see.
And we'll talk about that in just a moment way
back in Eden, okay. And so don't let anybody confuse
your mind by making it seem as if the Seventh
Day Sabbath was given to a certain set of people
that we now call Jews. No, it's not only for
the Jews. It's also for all of humanity, just like
Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden part of me.
And so we read now in that God in vein
from Genesis chapter two and verse three, and the Lord
God and God blessed the seventh Day. So it's a blessing,
it's not a curse. It's not a burden to be
hung around your neck and throw you into the sea.
It's not an albatross. Ah, the Sabbath was blessed by God.
Are you blessed in highly favored?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Are you blessed in highly favored? I can think of
a couple of musical spiritual artists who sing songs about
this blessing. If you're blessed in highly favored, then you
don't want to see yourself as a burden. So why
would people see the seventh day Sabbath that God gave
and blessed as a burden, and then the Bible says
and sanctified it. That means it is set apart for
a holy use. No other day was set aside for
a holy use. We worship God Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
Hopefully you worship God all day and at different points
of the day like Enoch walked with God. Hopefully you
bow your head and your heart and surrender your will
to God all day, every single day of those six
and you worship God with your lifestyle. You are as
lights in this wicked and perverse generation. But on the
seventh Day, which in America and many parts of the
world it's called Saturday whatever, it's called the seventh one. Yeah,
that one is holy. It is set aside for a
holy use because that in it God had rested from
all his work which he created and made so before
there was ever sin on planet Earth, before anyone had
ever sinned on planet Earth. The Bible says that God
gave us this blessing. He gave us this time that
is set aside for holy use, and he is showing
that he rested on the seventh day Sabbath to give
you the example. And of course later on we see
that it is a sign between us and God that
he's the one that sanctifies us. It's the sign. And
so the Sabbath is God's memorial of his creative power,
memorialized it set it apart at the beginning of human history.
For here's that big word, a L L all people.
It doesn't matter every kindred, race, tongue, tribe, people, milu.
It doesn't matter how you distinguish the different people on
planet Earth, even though we are all of one blood.
I wish I had the time. Yeah, but the Bible
is teaching us that God is given this blessing to
all of us to enjoy. Every single week, and then
we go to verse two. Let me read it one
more time. Six days shall work to be done. But
on the seventh day there shall be to you a
holy day, a sabbath of rest to the Lord. Whosoever
doeth work therein shall be put to death. That's what
he said at that time. And so the Sabbath and
the sanctuary share the same focus we're talking about in
the Old Testament. We know that the Old Testament sanctuary
is not something that we experience today in that sense,
but it's a teaching tool for us. God dwelling with
his people and inviting his people into rest, he said,
have them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell
among them. The sabbath time is a special dwelling because
God has special blessings and power and healing comes during
the sabbath hours. It is lawful, yes, to do good
on the Sabbath. He is, in fact and indeed the
Lord of the Sabbath day. And so it's never to
be a burden, but always to be a blessing to
humanity and glorify God. And so use the sabbath to
draw near to God in a special way without the
distractions of the normal work week, setting aside all distractions
so that you can experience his presence more fully. Yeah,
I actually set I wish I thought about saying this
before now, but I actually set on my iOS device,
my iPhone a Sabbath, a Sabbath focus so that certain
things don't come to my phone during the Sabbath hours,
so I can be more focused. And of course, finally, finally,
the Sabbath affirms God's role, his role as creator, redeemer,
and judge. Let the Sabbath shape your worldview, remembering creation,
resting in salvation, and preparing for the Kingdom to come.
Make it a great day, peace. 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,