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 Sabbath, February fifteen,
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 with Lesson number eight, God's Love and Justice,
and our caption for today is free will love and
Divine Providence. Free will Love and Divine Providence. We'll get
into that in just a moment, but first I'd like
to say welcome to you in Happy Sabbath, Happy Sabbath,
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that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go
ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father,
we do thank you for this Sabbath morning and for
the privilege we have to make a connection with you.
Please help us never to sever our ties with you,
never to walk away from you. Please, when trials come
or things that we don't understand happen, please help us
to redouble our connection with you so that we can
live inside of your will. In Jesus's name, I pray
Amen and a man again. Uh yeah. An elder once
taught me that we should not blame God. We must
not blame God for knowing everything. And so there are
some things that he knows about the future. He knows
about what will come. And people say, well, if you
know that this terrible thing is going to happen, then
why would you allow it to happen if it's terrible,
And it's like, yes, but you know, we do live
on a planet called Earth where we all have the
ability and right and privilege to decide whatever way we
want to go, you understand. And so in that reality,
in that reality, there are things that people do to
make things like bad for others, and you're like, well,
why doesn't God prevent it? You see this, There's one
thing about this world. It's not going to continue like this.
There's another thing about God. Yes, he's in control, but
he is allowing us to make our own decisions. And
if God forbid we are impacted negatively by others' decisions,
if it's contrary to God's will, and we are living
inside of God's will, he is going to more than
restore whatever we have lost, whatever pain that people suffer
as a result, whatever evil that we suffer at the
hands of some circumstance or somebody. God is going to
more than restore. Remember he's the one that created all things.
He created us, and so we see so many examples
of this. But I just don't want to get ahead
of myself. Let me just say that Jesus is almost here.
He's almost here. It's almost time for the Lord to come.
The hymn writer pen I'm going to read from John
chapter sixteen and verse thirty three. Remember, God is going
to restore all things, in fact, to do even better
than the way that it was. But the Bible reads
here in verse thirty three, these things have I spoken
to you that in me you may have peace? Yes,
even in the midst of storms. I think there is
a song that says that He's a shelter in the
time of storm. I think that he actually demonstrated that
reality as he lived on planet earths when his disciples
were losing their mind because they thought that the storm
was going to destroy them and that their boat was
going to sink and they would all die. And Jesus
is sleeping at the back of this tiny little fishing boat,
and they cry out, Master, camest thou not that we
perish in Jesus. In Jesus, because he knows that he
in this case it is sovereign, because he knows that
in this case he knows what is and is not
going to happen, because he knows that he has authority
even over nature. He gets up, he completely quiets the storm.
I know that we use poetic language in the King
James version piece be Still. He told the storm to
shut up, like he told the storm to hold its peace.
It had to stop because Jesus commanded it to stop,
and then he chided his children and said, why why
did you have problems?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Why was your faith so weak? Why were you discouraged?
Why were you desponding? Why were you fearful? You see,
when Jesus is with you, you have nothing to fear.
You have nothing to fear. When Jesus is with you,
you have nothing to fear. And it's as here that
in Me, Jesus speaking, you may have peace even if
you get that dreaded diagnosis, even if a loved one
of yours dies and people try to rush you through
your grieving process. But God never intended that we should
ever be separated. And sometimes we will miss our loved ones.
We will want to hear their voices, We will want
to smell the perfume or soap that they normally use.
We will want to experience them in the ways that
we for the years that we had together experienced them.
But right now we are separated. God never intended for
us to be separated by death. But alas in these
moments we do have to deal with that. These are
things with which we must condemn, contend. But he said
that in me you will have peace. But in the
world you will have tribulation. Talking about this world as
it is today and as it was Jesus's day. But
that's a conjunction. It negates what came before. But be
of good cheer. How can I be of good cheer? Jesus, Ah,
he said, be of good cheer? Why? Because I have
overcome the world. Jesus overcame the world. He overcame the devil,
lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, pride of life,
and all the consequences and outcomes that come as a
result of this. He overcame that. He overcame all of
the poverty, Ah, because for your sake he became poor
so that you could be rich. He overcame oppression and depression.
He overcame all despondency, He overcame all abuse. He overcame
those situations that you feel like will never amend. He
overcame all of that, and one day we're going to
experience the benefit. Can we agree that in this world
we have tribulations, That's what the text says. Aren't you
happy that the divine peacemaker overcame and conquered the evil
in this world? You see when Jesus, when Jesus fulfilled
his promise. He said, I lay down my life that
I may take it again. I have this commandment of
my father. When he did that and took his life back,
after he rested in the tomb until the Sunday morning,
when he took his life back. When he took his
life back, you realize what he received. The Bible writer
says that he received with the keys of hell and
the grave and death. And one day he's going to
throw all of that and fill in every negative in
every negative in the blank, fill in the blank with
every negative. He's going to throw all of that into
the lake of fire at the appropriate time. Very soon
we're going to see that Jesus will come like he promised.
He said, let not your heart be troubled. You believe
in God, believe also in me. This is Jesus speaking
in my father's house. There are many mansions. If it
were not so, I would have told you I go
to prepare a place for you. And if I go
and prepare a place for you, I will not might
I will. I shall come again and receive you unto myself.
That where I am there ye may be also free
will love and divine Providence. Don't worry about the details,
just trust God and he'll be here.
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,