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 Friday, February seven,
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 God's Love and Justice, and our caption for
today is God is Love. These are three three pivotal words,
three pivotal words in this day and age. God is Love.
We'll get into that in just a moment, but before
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ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father
and Heaven, thank you for this more and for giving
us this day of preparation. We are living in a
time of preparation. Please teach us to prepare for the
Sabbath hour and prepare for the coming of Jesus Christ.
In Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. God
is love. Now, that is something that maybe escapes a
lot of people, including believers. It escapes sometimes because maybe
we say it so flippantly, like we say it so quickly.
It's like, yeah, God is love. And then and then
really don't know what that means, but listen, I want
to also say while we go down through this lesson
today that God cares what we think about him because
that will determine if we accept Him as love and
be saved. Can I say it again? I know that
some people are having free in brain right now, like
how could God care what we think about him? Like,
he doesn't have a challenge with who he is. That's correct,
But God cares what we think about him because that
will impact what we will do with his love and
whether or not we will accept salvation from him. Okay,
so we're going right into my favorite book, my favorite book,
Steps to Christ. Outside of the Bible, my number one
favorite book is Steps to Christ. It's a short, thirteen
chapter book, really really short, but changed my life and
has continued to change my life. And it reads beginning,
let's see what page we're going to begin, Page ten,
The Word of God reveals his character. So if you
want to know who God is, if you want to
know how to relate to him, if you want to
see a transcript of God's character, then you go into
the Bible. I want to be very clear when it
says the Word of God is talking about these sixty
six blessed books that we now call the Bible, the
New Testament and the Old Testament, the Old Testament and
the New and that's where we can see the revelation
of his character. Let me continue the quote. He himself
has declared his infinite love and pity. When Moses prayed,
show me thy glory, the Lord answered, I will make
all my goodness pass before thee. This is his glory.
The Lord passed before Moses. You're like, well, what is
his glory about. To tell you, this is his glory.
This is his glory. Here we go, and he passed
before Moses, and he proclaimed, it's God speaking, nobody speaking
for him. He's not speaking through a prophet by the
Holy Ghost. No, He's proclaiming himself the Lord, the Lord God,
mercyful and gracious, long suffer, and abundant in goodness and truth.
This is what God is showing us his glory. Now.
He's showing us that he is the Lord, the self
existent and eternal one, the one who is so powerful
and yet he is so near near enough to hear
the groanings. According to the first few chapters of the
Book of Exodus. He can hear the groanings of his people.
He's self existent, he is eternal, and yet he can
come near enough to us, even though he is God Almighty,
blessed be his name. He can come so close close
to us, and he is so near to who we
are and what we need, that he can hear our groanings.
He's the Lord, God, merciful and gracious. Have you ever
been in a situation where you needed God's mercy. I'm
talking about that time that you said, God, if you
will deliver me, then I will. I will not do
this again, and he delivers you, and then did it
again anyway, and you broke your promises, and then in
your own spirit, in your own mindset, you're like my promises.
They feel like ropes of sand. I feel like when
I say something, I no longer mean it, and I'm
having a difficult time. And God, with his unmerited favor,
comes towards you with his grace that is power to
do what he says. He gives you this power. And
by the way, in the meantime, he's long suffering. He's
long suffering. That means he's very patient, extremely patient, and
abundant in goodness and truth. Sometimes when you switch on
your television, you have to wonder if people know what
the world truth is. You have to fact check everything.
We don't know if what looks like a human on
the screen is actually a human or if it is
some kind of robot that was manufactured in a computer
with the artificial intelligence at the level that it has reached.
And I have no price problem with artificial intelligence. I'm
just saying, sometimes we don't know if it's a human
in front of us or if it's a machine. Sometimes
we don't know if it's a human speaking to us
or a machine. But God is saying. God is saying
that he is He is true all the time, and
he's always good, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity. That's
the kind of that's the kind of infraction against God's
holy law and his government when humans know what he
stands for and go against him anyway, like iniquity is
when King David took Bathsheba and he murdered bath Sheba's husband.
That's iniquity. Knowing full well who God is and what
God stands for, knowing that he is the judge of all,
and not caring, Oh wait a minute. Sometimes humans in
twenty twenty five are doing the same thing, most of
us who are listening on on this program or watching
me on this program, knowing exactly what God wants, and
some God forbid even though he said in our lives,
let's make it an example. Like in our lives, he said,
don't eat of the fruit of the tree that is
in the midst of the garden. And some of us,
like Adam, I said, like Adam, I didn't mention Eve
I said, like Adam, take the fruit, knowing full well
everything that's going on, not being deceived but being self
deceived instead, and still do what God said, don't do
very simple. God gives simple instructions, nothing, nothing too complicated
about don't eat of the fruit that's in the midst
of the garden, for in the day that thou eatest
thereof thou shalt surely die. Like that is as clear
as it can be. And God has given us the
same thing in his holy ten commandments about thou shalt
and thou shalt not very clear. And in twenty twenty
five there are people still trampling the commandments of God,
are still proud, are still covetous, and some people are
still murderous in our thoughts and our actions. Some people
we are trampling the seventh day Sabbath, saying that it
doesn't matter what day. Ha ha, it doesn't matter what day.
And it's like, I don't know about that, because the
Bible is very clear. God only made one day holy.
He's only sanctified one day. And I don't mean for worship.
I'm saying for holiness. We worship God every day, but
He's only made one day holy. And by the way,
if you have a spouse, your husband, ladies, your wife, gentlemen,
that spouse is the only spouse for you. You can't have
three and four spouses. But God is love and he's
so loving that he manifests himself in his word to
the degree that we can see and learn to love
him and be saved Peast.
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,