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 Monday. It's
June two, 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 Noah's Evangelism. Noah's Evangelism. We'll get
into that in just a moment, but first I'd like
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we will get underway. Father in heaven, thank you for
giving us this new day and forgetting us into the
work week even further. Please Father, give us understanding, help
us to serve you with everything we have and everything
we are. Help us to see ourselves as evangelists in
this day in Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again.
Pardon me Noah's evangelism. Okay, so if you were living
no you're living in these last days. Let me switch
it up. You're living in these last days? What message
has God given you? I was about to take you
back to Noah's day, but you're living in this day,
like twenty twenty five, in the middle of the year.
What message has God given you? That's the first question.
And then how determined are you to share it? How
determined When things get difficult, when people ridicule you, when
people question you, when sometimes you have some doubts, not
necessarily about the message, but about well am I to
do it this way? Things are starting to feel a
little fill in the blank. Whatever it is that causes
your mind to start to think deeply, how determined are
you to share it? And then how willing are you
to remain focused? Because we're thins thinking about the time
that Noah was living in He preached for one hundred
and twenty years one message oh nine. And so now
the Bible says, here in the day of Noah, and
I want you to determine, like, is Noah's day and
my day? Very are they similar? And the Bible reads
in Genesis, chapter six and verse five, and God saw
that the wickedness of man was great in the earth,
and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart
was only evil. Continually, if you turn on the news,
if you turn on your social media, if you turn
on video services like well, I won't say like, because
then people will get all bent out of shape. But
there are streaming services that you can watch videos. Do
you believe based on what you see? You don't have
to contextualize it, You don't have to editorialize, You don't
have to make an explanation, but simply see and observe
and listen. Are our hearts humans in these last days?
Not yours? But in these last days are people's hearts
and imaginations of our hearts always only evil continually. And
of course the answer is yes. And so the Bible
says here in verse eleven of Genesis chapter six, the
earth also was corrupt before God? Do I need to
ask the same question? And the earth was filled with violence?
Do I need to ask the same question? Now? In
Matthew chapter twenty four, verses thirty seven through thirty nine,
we see something telling, and the Bible reads, but as
the days of as the days of Noah were, so
shall also the coming of the Son of Man be.
For as in the days of Noah, before days that
were before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying
and giving in marriage until the day Noah entered into
the ark, and they knew not until the flood came
and took them all away. So shall also the coming
of the Son of Man be. The pastor who baptized
me in nineteen ninety six, Pastor Henry M. Wright in Alexandria, Virginia,
used to say it was business as usual. So sometimes
you get focused on the eating and drinking and say
that it was in temperance, the marrying and giving in
marriage saying that people have a flippant attitude toward the
holiness of marriage. And perhaps that's true. But Pastor Wright
used to say it was business as usual and that
was the problem. While there was a looming warning, there
were impending crises, and people's arts were turning away from
God to extreme proportion, in extreme proportions, he said that
it was business as usual. And I tend to agree,
all of these years later, business as usual, as though
nothing is happening. In fact, there are scoffers in the
last days that say exactly that, Like, listen, y'all been
talking about Jesus coming for a long time, but it
looks like everything's the way that it's always been. Huh,
It's always been like this. And the Bible says that
we are to count God's long suffering or his patients
as salvation. It is salvafic in nature. God is giving
us an opportunity to get closer to Him, which is
why He is not yet here and so widespread wickedness
and corruption. Genesis speaks of evil thoughts and violence in
our world today is likewise filled with moral decay. Plea
is preoccupation with pleasure and normalcy. Life went on as usual, eating, drinking,
marrying until the judgment came. Today, many live distracted and
unprepared sudden and unexpected judgment. It shouldn't be unexpected, because
God has given us signs, He's given us warnings. But
better than that, he has given us the opportunity to
be in safety with him, to be in connection with him,
to be in right relationship with him, to love him
and keep his commandments, and keep his commandments. So let's
see how many lessons we can draw here in the
little bit of time that we have remaining. Number One,
faithfulness is not measured by numbers. The Bible says here
in Hebrews, chapter eleven and verse seven. By faith, Noah
warned of God prepared the arc. He preparedared the ark. Well,
how many people went in, it says here for the
deliverance of his family. That wasn't the whole purpose. But
his family were the only ones, and they only narrowly
the ones that were saved in the ark. Now, let
me just be clear, those were not the only people
that were holy in that day. I mean, there were
some people who died before the flood came that were
God's people. So let me not say that there were
only eight people who were holy in that day. Same thing,
in the last days, there was a small number. Sometimes
the Bible gives a symbolic number to a small number
who were living in the last days. It's a symbolic situation,
but that doesn't mean that those are the only ones
that are holy. It just means that that number, in
contrast to those who could have been saved, is small, minuscule.
So many people turned away. Now the world will mock
the truth before the floodgates. I already gave allusion to
this in two Peter, chapter three and verse five. The
Bible reads, they willingly are ignorant. Really, it's not the world,
it's people of God too are It's supposed to be
of God that the world perished being overflowed with water.
So what we need to do is speak the truth
gently but boldly, knowing. Knowing mockery is a sign of
the times, not a sign to stop. Mockery is a
sign of the times, not a sign to stop. What
is the message God gave you? How determined are you
to share it? How long are you willing to remain focused? 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,