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 Wednesday, July
thirty one, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle
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 Studies series through the Book of Mark, and our
caption for today is Rejection and Reception. Rejection and Reception.
Before we get into that, I'd like to say welcome
to everyone joining us, especially those joining us for the
very first time. It seems that I was rushing the
month along yesterday and said it was the last day
of the month, but really this is the last day
of the month. And yeah, it's hard sometimes remembering what
day is which when you do what I do. So
thank you. Anyway, we are here and God has been
faithful to us. I'm asking you to please go over
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Portion dot com. This is a way 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 we have to open up your word again.
Please give us the fullness of your holy spirit. Teach
us to receive you into our lives and never reject you.
In Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again. So yesterday,
because of time, I pulled the curtain down fairly abruptly
and really almost not deliberately, but almost minimized the healing
and deliverance of Gyrus's daughter. So let me just say
very simply that when Jesus, even though it seemed that
the woman was interrupting him, and it seemed especially as
Jyrus and the team they're going toward his home and
they're going to hopefully heal her, and then she dies.
His daughter dies. Jesus didn't even act like something was wrong,
except when people were in the way. When people who
did not have faith were in the way, he put
them out of the way. He put them out of
the way, and he called the young woman by name
and said, I say unto you arise. And so she
go from this desperate situation where it's dire and she's sick,
she's near death, and she does die. And Jesus doesn't
change his demeanor at all because he's the resurrection in
the life. When we are in dire circumstances. I need
to say this here. You are in dire circumstances. You
are panicking, you are frantic. Jesus doesn't have to change
his demeanor. Why not, because he's the resurrection and he's
the life. So no matter what is going on in
our lives, he is able to handle it. His timing
and our timing are not the same. And with that
in mind, I want you to take your Bibles and
go with me to Mark chapter six and we'll read
beginning at verse one. God's timing and our timing are
not the same. And so the Bible continues, and he
went out from thence and came into his own country.
He's leaving that scene. He's into his own country, and
his disciples are following him. And when the Sabbath day
was come, he began to teach in the synagogue, and
many hearing him were astonishing, from whence hath this man
these things? And what wisdom is this which is given
unto him? That even such mighty works were wrought by
his hands. So they realize that when he speaks, he's
not speaking in that weakness of even the religious leaders
of the day. And when he speaks the word of God,
he also begins to work the works of God. The
word of God is in his mind, between his eyes,
the frontlets of his eyes, like Deuteronomy six says, and
I think it's Exodus chapter thirteen talks about God's power
in our foreheads and in our hands, and also in
our hands. Yes, his works agree with what's in his head.
His head is connected to God, his mindset, his holiness
is fully connected with God, and his actions agree in
the head. In the hand, they agree very good. And
so the Bible says verse three, Is this not the
carpenter the son of Mary, the brother of James and Joseph,
and of Judah and Simon, And are not his sisters
here with us? Like we know everybody. His pedigree is
not aligning with the kind of power that he has.
He did not go to the school of the prophets.
He was not trained by the rabbis. He does not
come from the stock that's supposed to be able to
be this kind of powerful. And the Bible says, even
though that family line is what they say it is
verse four. But Jesus said, unto them, a prophet is
not without honor, but in his own country and among
his own people, and in his own house. So he
sees right through them. They were more like skeptics than
they were surprised and amazed they were skeptics. And then
the Bible says, and he could there do no mighty
work save that he laid his hands on a few
sick folk and healed them, and he marveled because of
their unbelief. And he went around the village's teaching, and
he called unto him the twelve and began to send
forth them two by two, and gave them power over
unclean spirits, and commanded them that they should take nothing
for their journey, save a staff, no script, no bread,
no money in their purse, but be shod with the sandals,
put and not put on two coats. And he said
unto them, in the place, soever ye enter into an house,
there abide until ye depart from that place. And whosoever
shall not receive you nor hear you when you part,
thence take off or shake off the dust under your
feet for a testimony against them. Verily, I say unto you,
it shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in
the day of judgment than for that city. And they
went out and preached that men should repent, and they
cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that
were sick, and healed them. He's in his hometown, Jesus is.
And because people decided that he did not fit the
description of a man who was supposed to be powerful
enough to deliver people from sin, because he didn't fit
the description of someone who's supposed to understand the Bible. Sometimes,
even in our own churches, can I just come right here?
Sometimes even in our own churches, people reject truth because
the messenger doesn't fit the bill that in people's brain,
he or she was not preaching from the version of
the Bible. We think we like he or she did
not go to a particular university and get a PhD.
Or a Master of Divinity or a Doctor of Ministry degree,
and therefore we sometimes reject them. They did not come
from the conference, they did not come from the union.
That they did not come from the division. This is
for Seventh day Adventists to understand what these words mean.
They did not come from the General Conference of Seventh
day Adventists, so we didn't treat them as honored people
in the pulpit, as they were actually delivering the mighty
works of God and manifesting through the power of the
Holy Spirit that God was with them. And so Jesus
is saying that there are times that we have to
shake the dust off our feet when people don't see
and experience the power of the Holy Ghost and they
reject that, they reject his power. There comes a point
when we have to move on and go to the
next town, the next village, the next situation where people
are receptive to His will. Now, the Bible continues that
you know, people are hearing about what Jesus is doing,
and they're wondering, like, is this John reincarnated? Like what
in the world is going on? We killed him because
he was holy, We killed him because he was against
us Ah, but it looked like it looked like that
Jesus and John were so close that they couldn't tell
the difference. The bottom line is that when the Holy
Spirit is moving, we get to receive him by faith.
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,