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 Thursday, April tenth,
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 how to study Bible Prophecy, and our caption
for today is the Serpent. The Serpent. We'll get into
that in just a moment, but first I'd like to
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Father and Heaven. Thank you for giving us this new
day and for the privilege that we have to open
up your word again. And I'm asking you to give
us a revelation of Jesus Christ today. Please, and all
things that we say and do help us to have
the revelation in Jesus' name. I pray, Amen and Amen
again the serpent. Now, I really don't want to talk
about this, but the reality is we do have an enemy,
and our enemy is the devil. In Ephesians chapter six,
the Bible says that we don't wrestle against flesh and blood,
but against principalities and powers and the rulers of the
darkness of this age and spiritual wickedness in high places.
And it gives us the antidote for that in seven
key points. We're not going to break those down today,
but in seven key implements of war, God has given
us the antidote against the enemy, or what we need
in order to insulate ourselves against his fiery darts. Okay,
and so today we're going to look at this parallel
between the Book of Genesis and the Book of Revelation
and to see how this enemy, the serpent, the devil,
the dragon operates. But more than that, I am asking
that God would give us a revelation of himself. So
let's go ahead and begin with the Bible Book of
jen Genesis, chapter three, and the Bible reads, now, the
serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field
which the Lord God had made. And that same serpent,
that same devil, that same beast said unto the woman,
yea hath God said. Let me just say this. I'm
not going to read every word in these passages, but
I'm going to give the points as we read through
the passages. So he is insinuating doubt, I said, he
it is not really a serpent. It is that the
devil is using a serpent. The devil is being a ventriloquist.
He's a puppet master. He's speaking through this serpent, and
he is causing the woman to re examine what God said,
one of my friends said. Some years ago, she said,
she said, she said, God told me Xyz. I want
to see what you have to say. I said, you said, God,
I told you Xyz. She said yes. I said, So
what I have to say is like, why are you
asking me? If God said x y Z, I have
nothing to offer you. Understand, I have no interpretation of it.
I have no direction to give you based on it.
Because God is speaking, and I am keeping my mouth
quiet except to go go and do what he said.
And so in this case, now the devil is doing
the opposite. He is insinuating dealt with Eve, and he
is hoping that she will go down the wrong path
Verse four. And the serpent said, unto the woman, you
shall not surely die, even though God said, if you
do this, you'll separate yourself from me. He is saying.
The serpent, who is really the devil, is saying, no,
God is not telling you the truth. Verse five. For
God doth know that in the day that you eat
thereof you shall be as God's knowing good and evil.
So he's trying to make it seem as if God
is hiding something from us. Really, and truly, God was
not hiding something from us. He was protecting us from something.
He was protecting us from separating ourselves from him. He
was protecting us from eternal damnation and death. He was
giving us the privilege of being with him forever. And
all Adam and Eve needed to do was pass that
simple test. What is your test today? What is your
test today? Is God? That the devil, excuse me, is
tempting you to disbelieve God when he said I will
be with you all way, even unto the end of
the world. You're wondering, God, are you listening? Is it
that he is trying to cause you? The devil is
causing you to doubt whether God is actually your shelter
in the time of storm, that He is indeed your refuge,
your trust. He is the one that you can hide ian,
you can go into him and be safe. And the
devil is saying, no, God is not trustworthy. You see,
every single day, many times throughout the day, we are
faced with our tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
And God has given us the privilege to go into
him and to be safe. But the enemy is always
trying to pull us away, pull us away and cause
us to eat or at least entice us to eat,
because really he can't cause us to do anything, you see.
And so in the Book of Revelation there was war
in heaven chapter twelve, beginning at verse seven Mi kay
Yell and his angels fought against the dragon. So there's
Jesus and his angels, the dragon, who was also the
devil and his angels verse nine. And the dragon was
cast out that old serpent called the devil and Satan,
which deceiveth the whole world. And so we see some
common themes deception methods. In Genesis, the devil said, yeay,
have God's an insinuated doubt in Revelation, which deceived the
whole world. And so this shows that he questions God's word,
he challenges God's authority, He misrepresents God's character and then
uses subtlety. And of course there is this power struggle,
this power struggle. And in Genesis he said the devil said,
you will be as God's in Revelation is causing a
war in heaven. And it shows that the devil wants
to be supreme, that he is rebellious against authority. Wait
a minute, maybe I'm speaking too quickly, are you rebellious
against authority. Do you know people who are rebellious against authority?
M M. There is pride as a motivation. Am I
motivated by pride? Are you? Do you know people who
are motivated by pride? And then of course there are conflicts.
There's a conflict between the kingdom of God and the
kingdom of the enemy. And then of course there is
an attack on the character of God. Those in both
of those God doth know, and he's making it seem
as if God is holding something back, and he is,
in Revelation, the accuser of the brethren. So it questions
God's motives, attacks God's character, suggests God is withholding something,
and portrays God as selfish. There are so many things,
but listen, the reality is the devil is consistent in
his onslaught and his attack. He's always lying. Even if
there is a measure of truth, he's really using it
in order to deceive. So really he's lying. There is
an ongoing conflict as long as we live on planet Earth.
Every time you go to work, every time you are
in your relationships, hi, every time you are developing spiritually
and personally, there is an ongoing conflict, and it is
happening with all of us. It is universal in its scope,
like nobody is excluded. As long as we live on
planet Earth, we are in this same conflict. And this
conflict has eternal implications. It's truth versus lies eternally huh
in terms of the implications, love versus selfishness, and fear
and hatred, faith versus doubt. And so if we choose
the side of God, then we choose the side of victory.
We don't choose the side of the serpent. We don't
choose when he is insinuating doubt. We don't choose his
version of who God is. We choose Christ. And when
we choose Christ, we will have victory over the devil
one hundred percent of the time.
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,