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, November one,
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 six now Lessons of Faith
from Joshua, under the caption the Enemy within the Enemy within.
Let's go ahead and pray and then get underway. Father,
We thank you for this moment of time. Thank you
for exposing the enemy, the real enemy. Now please give
us the strength to surrender our will so you can
fight for us. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen, and
Amen again. If you were with us last evening during
our our worshipful approach to music and learning the lesson,
go ahead and type A one in the chat. The
enemy within actually brings to my mind when David needed
to be at the side of King Saul when he
was dealing with some darkness. And the blessing is that
that David had the gift of worship, and his worshipful
gift also was attached to music, and he was able
to dispel that darkness under the Holy Ghost with that
Saul was dealing with. And so every day we struggle
with this enemy within, this enemy within, and so we're
going to expose this from the scriptures and see what
God would have us to do. And so the Bible
reads here in Jeremiah, chapter seventeen and verse ten. I
the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to
give every person, every man according to his ways, according
to the fruit of his deeds. I search the heart.
This is God's vantage point. He sees and knows everything
about everything that's in our minds, on our hearts, our intentions,
the things we're planning, where our DNA is impacting how
we behave today or how we think, and so I'm
thankful that even though it says to give every person
according to his deeds, and that might be like fear,
like a fearful thing to some of us, I'm grateful
that He's given us Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ, to save
us from our sins, so that the deeds that are
revealed in judgment have nothing to do with us, because
we will have asked God for forgiveness, we will have
chosen repentance, we will have had the Holy Ghost transform
our lives. So now we are covered in the righteousness
of Jesus Christ. So when the judgment comes through to
our name, really God only sees the character, the untarnished
character of Jesus Christ. Okay, let me just stop before
I continue to preach. Now, let's go ahead and learn
something from the actual lesson study here, the lesson study here,
and our first lesson is coming in from Joshua, chapter
seven and verse eleven. What we said a while ago
was a bonus this Sabbath morning, and the Bible says
that God's people hath sinned and they have also transgressed
my covenant which I commanded them. And so the context
will likely talk about it tomorrow. If my memory serves,
will talk about it tomorrow. But it is God's people's defeat.
At Ai at Ai revealed a truth that every believer
must face. What is it? The greatest threat to victory
does not come from the enemy outside, but from compromise inside.
And the guy named Aiken Aichin he Aikin's hidden sin
poisoned the entire camp. I need you to ask yourself,
is there anything that you are doing, any thoughts, any feelings,
any actions that you are harboring ah that are against
God that are poisoning the entire camp of your family,
the entire camp of your your worship community, your meet ministry,
how the people with whom you work. Is there anything
that you are doing that is leaking into the society.
And I'm saying it from a sin perspective in the
society in which you live. So because Aiken's hidden sin
poisoned the entire camp, showing that private disobedience can have
public consequences, I need the nations of the world to
hear this. Those who are in charge of large groups
of people you represent in government, the people that are
in your countries or wherever you are domiciled, I need
you to know that private disobedience can have public consequences.
The covenant that secured divine favor could not coexist with
secret rebellion. So when Aiken did that thing that we'll
talk about in a day or two, yeah, and then
hid it or attempted to hide it from God, Yeah,
that had an impact on the people around him. Yeah,
covenant keeping people must be covenant keepers. We can't just
say it. It has to be our reality. And so
we'll talk about that in detail, like I said tomorrow,
beginning tomorrow. But the action step for this moment is
to ask the Holy Ghost to search your heart daily.
Hidden sin must be confessed to God before it becomes
a public defeat. Hidden sin must be confessed to God
before it becomes public defeat. Yeah, let's move to our
second lesson, coming in from coming in from first Peter,
chapter one and verse four, and the Bible reads an
inheritance imperishable. This is what God wants to give us,
undefiled and unfading, reserved in heaven for you. So this
is what God wants. So God's presence is our true power.
God's presence is our true power. So God's people's strength
we're talking about the ancient people of God. Their strength
was never in swords or strategy, and we invested an
entire week talking about how God never intended his people
to have to take up arms, never for any reason, right,
But it was in the presence of God. When the
presence of God was with them. When God was with them,
they were successful, full stop. Which is why again I
think I said it yesterday that Moses begged God, if
I have found favor with you, would you please show
me your glory in another place? He said, God, if
you will not be with us, please don't let us
go up and do whatever was coming next. So when
Sin broke the covenant, his presence withdrew. I know I'm
saying it in a passive way. God withdrew when Aken
and others would have broken covenant with him, and then
defeat comes right away. Defeat followed. The same is true
for us in twenty twenty five. Nothing has changed. Spiritual
success in spiritual warfare depends on the obedience of God's people.
When we take on the armor of God, we are
to be taking on the armor of God as individuals
who are yielding our will to God. We're not just
talking about it. We're not singing those goofy songs that
challenge the devil all the time and make it seem
like we can just put the enemy under our feet
without God. Come on, now, stop with that stuff. God
is saying to us that the only safe place is
surrender to God. Surrender to God, who is, as we've
said over the last couple of weeks, he is the
commander of the heavenly Hope, sees the ultimate holy and
divine warrior. And so we are to guard our connection
with God above everything else. His presence and not our performance,
determines victory in our lives. Our final lesson is confession
restores covenant strength. Now, the Bible says in Ezra chapter ten,
which we'll talk about verse eleven. Now therefore, make confession
unto the Lord, God of your father's and do his pleasure.
This is a model for us that when we fall,
God forbid, but if we do that, we confess quickly.
We confess quickly and connect with God. Thanks for joining
us listening.
Speaker 1: 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.