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 you 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 Wednesday, February
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 God's Love and Justice, and our caption
for today is if you worship Me, If you worship Me.
We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
and then we will get underway. Father in heaven, we
thank you for giving us the opportunity to come together
and to open up your word. I pray God now
that you will give us the fullness of your understanding.
Give us all of your holy spirit. We need as
much as we can handle today the fullness, and I
pray that we will live according to your principles. In
Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again. So I've
talked to you about my friend Norman, whom I called Jonathan,
but I didn't ever tell you. I don't think what
he said to me. Some time ago, it's like twenty eighteen.
I was preparing to teach a Bible series for the
next several weeks, and we were in the parking lot
praying together and he said, Father, we ask you to
give my brother the Holy Spirit. Right, and then he goes.
He goes, we are not satisfied with a double portion
of your Holy Spirit. We're not satisfied with a triple
portion of your spirit. We want the fullness. And I said, Lord,
Now that changed my life. That request that my brother
made of God changed my life. Because sometimes we are satisfied,
we're satisfied. Elisha wasn't satisfied with the power that God
had given Elijah, you see. And so it is in
that vein that I come to you today because Jesus,
when he went into the wilderness as he lived on
planet Earth, now he's not about he is thirty years
of age. He is preparing for his public ministry, and
in the Jordan River he is being baptized. And the
Bible says that the Father his voice is heard from
heavens saying this is my beloved son, and whom I
am well pleased. And then we see, we see the
manifestation of the power of God in the person of
the Holy Ghost coming and pouring out into Jesus's life.
The Holy Ghost took the form of a dove enlighted
upon him, and of course now the rest is history.
But right after that, now Jesus is full of the
awareness of God, his father's presence and approval. Now he
is full of the Holy Ghost. And he goes into
the wilderness, and he is being tempted by the devil.
And you know what. The devil comes to him after
he has fasted forty days. He's fasted forty days, and
while he is at his physical most weakest point, he's hungry.
I said, physically weak, hungry, And now the devil comes in.
And this is the story. Now we're going to read
it from Matthew chapter four, but it can also be
found in Luke chapter four. And I will begin at
verse one, and then the Bible reads, then was Jesus
led up of the spirit, the Holy Spirit? Right we
were talking about being full. Jesus is full of the
Holy Ghost into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights,
he was afterward and hungered. So God had provided spiritual
strength to him during those forty days. And now at
the end of those forty days, his body is sensing
the hunger. He's finally sensing the hunger verse three. And
when I bet you somebody just learned something. I don't
have the time right there. Yeah, somebody just caught that, okay.
And when the tempter came to him, he said, if
that'll be the Son of God, command that these stones
be made bread. Now he's insinuating doubt. He's appearing. The
tempter is appearing in a way that could be deceptive
to Jesus if Jesus is not connected to God our father.
Did you hear what I said? The devil or the
tempter is appearing in such a way that would deceive
Jesus if Jesus were not connected to God our Father.
And so now there's this question, like, look at yourself here,
look at yourself all emaciated, look at yourself physically weakened,
look at yourself. If you're the son of God like
I thought you were the son of God. Like, if
you're the son of God, then prove it. Prove it now,
Jesus said verse four. And he answered and said, it
is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but
by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
So Jesus is actually demonstrating that he really in fact,
is the son of God, because he is implicitly trusting
God his father, in the power of the Holy Ghost.
In that moment, then the devil taketh him up to
a holy city and setteth him on a pinnacle of
the temple. And then he said unto him, if thou
be the son of God, cast thyself down from this place.
For it is written he shall give his angels charge
concerning thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee
up lest at any time thou dash thy foot against
the stone? Can I just pause right here? The devil
is not impressed by your Bible knowledge. I know that
some people, as we discuss living in the last days
and we talk about we should have God's word hidden
in our hearts. Yes, it's true understanding memorization, being able
to recall absolutely. But sometimes humans think that that is
the way to be victorious, That if we can repeat
God's words and hide ourselves in holy spaces, then that
is the code, that is the way that we will
be victorious. That is part of it. It's part of it.
We have to yield our will to God, not just
know his words. The Pharisees that didn't believe in Jesus.
Not all of them were that way. Some of them
did believe in Jesus. But the Pharisees that did not
believe in Jesus in those days, the Sadducees that did
not believe in Jesus, and all of these wise, so
called wise people, those individuals knew the scriptures inside and out,
backways and forward, backward and forward, and they still missed him.
And so we yield our will to God. Because the
devil is not impressed. You see, the devil took him
to a holy You like holy stuff, You want to
repeat scriptures, So he takes him to the holy city.
You like holy stuff, you want to repeat scriptures, Jesus.
And then he takes them to the pinnacle of the
Holy Temple that God has put his presence there, Ha,
And then he begins to quote holy writ holy scripture.
He begins to quote from the same scrolls that Jesus
was quoting. And so again the devil is not impressed
by your Bible knowledge. He's not impressed by your physical
presence in some place that is holy. He has to
flee when we yield ourselves to God. And of course Jesus,
Jesus demonstrating again he is in fact connected with God
our Father in the fullest sense. Jesus said, unto him
in verse seven, it is written, thou shalt not tempt
the Lord thy God. And then the devil taketh him
to an exceeding high mountain and showed him all of
the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them.
And Luke said, in the moment of time and seth
unto him, all these things will I give thee. The
devil can't give him this, but he said he could,
if thou wilt fall down and worship me. And Jesus said,
unto him, get thee. Hence Satan, For it is written
thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only
shalt thou serve. And the Bible says the devil had
to flee. You see, this was the devil's intent from
the time he was in heaven. He wanted worship, and
Jesus showed him right there. Only God is worthy of worship. 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.