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's Sabbath, August twenty four,
twenty twenty four. 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 through the Book of Mark, and our caption
for today is Jerusalem Controversies. Jerusalem Controversies. Before before we
get into that, I'd like to say welcome to you
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This is one of the ways that we continue to
build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and
then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you
for giving us this new day and for the privilege
that you have entrusted to us to open up your word.
And I say this every day because every day it's
a new mercy. Great is thy faithfulness. Father, Please help
us not to just see sort of an intellectual or
academic argument or discussion here, but help us to be
transformed by the renewing of our minds today. Thank you
in Jesus' name. I pray, Amen and a men Again.
I just want to say a great, big, happy Sabbath
to anyone who's first time worshiping and experiencing God in
this way on the sabbath. It's your first time, it's
your first time with the people of God on a sabbath.
I just want to say a great, big welcome and
happy Sabbath to you, especially all right, so so much
going on in the life of Christ and the people
who hated him, and these people just had a habit
of making up stuff to argue about. And I've said
this to you before, right, and so we're going to
begin with a passage of scripture that will likely look
at again in a couple of days. But here it
reads in Mark, chapter eleven and verse twenty five. And
whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone,
forgive him that your father in heaven may also forgive
your trespasses. Now, for those of you who have been
with me for years, you may have heard me tell
this story over and over again, but it bears repeating.
When I first became a believer, now, I grew up
going to church, and then after I went away to
school at age fifteen, I never went back home. I
never lived at home again. So from age fifteen straight
through I'm with me right, I would visit home, but
I never lived at home again. And so like that
whole covering of okay, mommy says, go to church, that's gone.
And so I never was a believer anyway, And so
without Mommy being that covering, then now I don't even
go to church much less the fact that I wasn't
a believer anyway. You see where this is going, and
so it's the wrong path. I'm down the wrong path.
But now I'm about twenty three years of age, and
I get baptized, and immediately God is transforming my life
and I'm actually a believer, like an actual believer. And
I remember reading what we call the Lord's Prayer. I
wish I had the time to deal with that one,
but I remember it. And when Jesus said, and forgive
us our debts as we forgive our debtors, I intentionally
and actively skipped over that. I read it and said, no,
I'm not praying this God, because there's there's somebody that
I just really I'm not too much interested in forgiving.
I don't. I don't, so I don't want you to
forgive me like that because I know that that would
be bad. So I'm going to skip over that. Well,
I mean, I was a babe in Christ, so give
me cut me a little slack here. I'm a babe
in Christ. I thought that's what it was. I thought,
if I just don't ask for that, then I won't
get that I wanted. I wanted like the forgiveness that
I don't deserve. But I didn't want to give my
father in this case. I didn't want to forgive him.
I didn't want to forgive him. And so yeah, well,
now I know that's not how it works. Jesus is saying,
this is the way that I forgive you in the
same way that you forgive. That's how I forgive you.
You can skip over it all you want, but this
is how it works. And now I know you know
that that makes all the difference in the world. And
so what we need to do is bring this into
our practical lives. I just told you some personal stuff
like way back then, I was struggling with and trying
to outsmart the reality of scripture. And now let me
read it again in that context. And whenever you stand praying,
since you're praying, you're praying people. If you have anything
against anyone, forgive that person. So if you're praying Lord,
please I need some rent money. And you remember that
you have anything against anyone, forgive the person. And when
you stand praying, Lord, please protect me as I go
out on the roads and the highways and the byways.
If you have anything against anyone, forgive him. Oh wait
a minute, and you're praying God, I'm having this pain
that I don't know what it is, and I need
your help. Can you help me send me to the
right way of dealing with this Doctor naturopathic person, somebody
in some other science that can help me to the
right pastor preacher, or sister or brother in the church
that can anoint me. Father, can you help me? If
you remember that you have anything against anyone, forgive him.
You have a problem with your husband, Ladies, you have
a problem with your with your with your wife. Gentlemen,
your children seem to be driving you crazy, and you've
not forgiven them because they seem not to be following
your guidelines, and now you're upset and you and you
are still holding it against Oh, if you have anything
against anyone, forgive that person one that owes you money,
the one that's always coming up with excuses. I think
we're touching a chord here. Yeah, the person who who
abused you when you were a child. I have stories
I was abused when I was a child, and unmentionable,
unspeakable ways, and not just by one person. If that's
not bad enough. So I'm telling you my business. If
you have anything against anyone, forgive that person that your
father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. This
is how it works. So many things to talk about
over the next several days, but let's just touch a few.
I think that one struck the court. I think you
understand now it's clear in your mind. And so number one.
As we think about what we'll be discussing throughout the
next several days, I want to challenge prejudices with compassion
and truth. In the Book of Mark, chapter two, verse seventeen,
the Bible reads, when Jesus heard it, he saith unto
them that they that are whole have no need of
a physician, but they that are sick. I came not
to call the righteous, but sinners to repentant. You see,
religious bigots, people who were prejudiced among the so called
people of God could not figure out why Jesus was
so interested in being around the modern day gunman, Like
why was Jesus so interested in being around the modern
day street walkers? Like why would Jesus be so interested
in being around with drug addicts and drug dealers? Like
why would he be around gangsters? Well, because those who
are sick need the physician. So hanging out with people
inside church all the time, having meetings all the time
about the work that we need to do when there's
work out there to actually do. Jesus was like, I'm
not about that life, so change of prejudices, like the
people who are not like your chorra. Friends, like think
about the number of people that are out there that
need the truth that you have in your bosom, and
ask God to teach you to be in the presence
of people who need God the most so that we
can help and call them to repentance. Let me just
say one or two more, one or two more, probably
one good one more. Let's read in Mark chapter three
and verse five. And when he had looked around about
them with anger, being greed for the hardness of their hearts,
he said, unto the child, stretch out thine hand. And
he stretched it out, and he was restored whole as
the other, whole, as the other. Spiritual blindness will cause
us to set up all kinds of walls and boundaries
about who deserves to have God and who deserves to
be healed by God, all kinds of controversies. But we're
going to resolve them over the next couple of days. 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,