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. It's
July twenty six, 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 with lesson number five through
the Book of Exodus, and our caption for today is Passover.
Pass Over. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,
we thank you for this day. Thank you for loving
us enough to give us the antidote for sin. Thank
you for loving us enough to bring us into your fold,
into your community, into your heart, into fellowship with you
and other people who also love you. Please please help
us to get the full benefit and be covered under
the blood. In Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen
again passover. Now. Of course I'm thinking about a song
pass me not o, gentle Savior, here my humble cry,
while on others thou art calling please please do not
pass me by. And so today that is not that
is not the context that we have this time. We
want God to pass us over, uh he. We want
him to pass us over when when when condemnation is afoot,
We want him to pass us over, when destruction is afoot.
We want God to pass us over like pass over us,
like skip us. We want we want to be in
under the banner of safety, under the blood of Jesus Christ.
And when when these judgments are being meeted out upon
the earth for people who hated love for people who
decided that God is not good enough to be in
a relationship with When when those judgments are meeted out,
we want God to pass us over. He wants we
want him to see us as protected and not those
who need to be unfortunately destroyed. It is what it
is like. The reality is that some people would rather
be destroyed than to be in a good relationship with
God submitting to his will. But before I go too
far into that, let me just go ahead and jump
in and let's get some lessons. Let's get some lessons.
We'll talk about passover some more a few days in
the future if the Lord spaars life. Okay, So our
first lesson is coming in from Exodus chapter twenty Exodus
chapter twelve, verses twenty six and twenty seven. And I
will read it. I will read it for you, and
it shall come to pass when your children shall say,
unto you, what mean ye by this service? So we
know now that we are now commemorating the passover time
with a service that ye shall say it is the
sacrifice of the Lord's passover. So when God gives you
a word, honor it in obedience. So how am I
supposed to show my children this. Here's a word for you,
honor that. How am I supposed to experience you through
my marriage? Here is a word, honor that. How am
I supposed to have the secrets to success in my
business or my professional life? Here is a word, live
by it. How am I supposed to amend my ways? God,
where my relationship with you is concerned. I've made so
many mistakes, even after I've promised to do what you say.
Here is a word I want you to honor that
with obedience. And so God's people had the privilege. They
had the privilege even though they were stiff necked, even
though they murmured against God, even though there are so
many things that God really literally could have destroyed them for.
But he said, because I made a promise to Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob. I promised them that I would take
my people into the land of promise. Yeah, I we
had the time to deal with that. But let me
just pause right there. I'm going to have compassion on
them and when it's now time to deliver them from
Egyptian captivity. And I have already meeted out my judgments
in the form of nine plagues. This final one is
going to be the death knew this is the final
one because the pharaoh and people who were who were
sympathetic toward that particular pharaoh, they chose not to love love,
they chose not to repent no matter what I did,
God speaking, And therefore it's time for the final thrust.
And here is the final thrust. The death Angel is
going to come through and do a lot of damage
to the people who have chosen unrepentant. And so this
is what you need to do. You need to go
into your houses. You need to get the blood of
the prescribed innocent animal, and I need you to apply
that blood over the lintel and the door posts a
certain way. He gave them the specific method to show
that they would rather be in relationship with God than
to continue to murmur, to continue to turn their backs
on Him, to continue to harden their hearts, to continue
to worship false gods. They would rather be in communion
with God. I know what I just said. There, communion
with God, then to continue along the pathway that they
were already on. And so the people of God and
some Egyptians went into the homes did exactly what God said,
and they were safe on that fate full night. And
so when God gives you a word, honor it in obedience.
Teach the next generation what His mercy saved you from.
The second lesson from Exodus, chapter eleven and verse five,
and it reads in all the first born in the
land of Egypt unfortunately, I say unfortunately because they did
not need to have that happen to them. But at
this moment, it was the choice they made. They will die.
Careful who your leaders are. That's not even the lesson,
This is a bonus. Careful who you align yourself with
and allie yourself with, because sometimes the leaders will guide
you to destruction. Sometimes your leaders are leaders will guide
us toward destruction. Be careful who you choose as your leader.
But here is the actual lesson. One person's disobedience can
cause national tragedy. I said, one person's disobedience can cause
or create national tragedy. So what is the action step
if you're in a leadership role. Now we're not looking
out work, We're looking at ourselves in the home, in
the church, or workplace. Take your obedience to God seriously.
Lives may hang in the balance, they may be weighed
in the balance based on somewhat your leadership. Number three
and final, we're going into the Bible Book of Philippians,
chapter two, in verse thirteen. Ah. Yes, for it is
God which worketh in you, both to will and to
do of his good pleasure. Work out your own salvation
with fear and trembling. And by the way, God is
not leaving you alone. He's not leaving you alone. He's
giving you the power of His Holy Spirit to desire
to do the right thing and then actually live out
the right pathway, the right steps, the right strategy, the
right tactics, the right behaviors. And of course he's transforming
our minds in the right way, both to will and
to do of his good pleasure. And here is the step,
when the pressure is high and the consequences are real, lean,
I said, lean, lean on God's strength to do what
you cannot do alone, what you cannot do by yourself.
When everything seems the car the deck seems to be
stocked against you, you seem to be on the losing side.
In the moment, your mind and or emotions have gone
down a slope and you're like, God, what am I
supposed to do? Yeah, that's the moment that you lean
on God for his strength to do what only God
can help you to do. Yeah, Passover. We'll talk about
it some more in the next few days. Make it
a great day. 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.