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. It
is May thirty 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 how to study Bible Prophecy.
We're coming in at lesson number ten of thirteen under
the caption upon whom the ends have come? Upon whom
the ends have come. We'll get into that in just
a moment, but first i'd like to say welcome to
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go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,
we thank you for this Sabbath morning and for giving
us so many great and precious promises, even in these
last days. I'm asking you to please open up our understanding,
teach us to serve you with all that we have
and all that we are. In Jesus' name, I pray,
Amen and Amen again upon whom the ends have come.
All right, So here's the thing. There are many times
that God's people see the warnings. I didn't say heed.
I wish we always did heed. But there are times
that we see the warnings and maybe even hyper focus
on the warnings of God, but do not see the promises.
Let me say it another way. There are people who
recognize and identify the warnings and completely miss the promises
of God. Let me read from the Bible Book of
First Corinthians. First Corinthians, and actually we're going to illustrate that.
Beginning at verse eleven of chapter ten, the Bible reads,
now all these things happened. Of course, these are the
experiences of the people of God as he delivered them
from captivity, and then there were times that they turned
their backs on him, and then there were consequences. Right,
So all of these things happened to them as examples
that they are written for our admonition, upon whom the
ends of the ages or the world or the times
have come. Therefore, let him who thinks he stands take
heed lest he falls. So, of course this is giving
us the warning, like, look at your history. Look at
the history of God's people throughout the ages, and see
in particular where they turned their backs on God, even
though he gave them all of the grace, all of
the power, all of the protection that they needed. And
yet many times they turned away from God. And there
were indeed consequences. So if you're living in the last days,
you need to see that and know that this is
the reality even for you. But guess what, if we
stop there, we will not see the promise. You see,
we see what went wrong, but we don't see the promise.
Let me start again at verse eleven. But this time
I won't stop, Okay, And so it reads now all
these things happened unto them for end samples, and they
are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of
the world are come. Wherefore, let him that thinketh that
he standeth take heed less to fall. Wait a minute,
there's a promise in verse thirteen. There hath no temptation.
How many temptations, no temptation taken you, but such as
is common to man. But God is faithful. Who is faithful?
God is faithful, who will, with the temptation also make
a way to escape, that you may be able to
bear it. You see, the promise is that when temptations come,
whatever it was that led God's people astray, whatever it
was that the devil cooked up for them, whatever it
was that caused them to be prideful and think that
they did not need God, even though every single thing
that they got they got from him. The deliverance that
they received they got from him. The fact that they
didn't need new slippers for sandals forever, like while they
were going through the wilderness experience, because those didn't wear
out miraculously. They got that from him. The food from
hand from heaven, almost said Hannah, the manna from heaven
that God gave them, it came from him. The water
from the rock came from him, and yet they started
to become self sufficient in their own mindset. They relied
upon themselves and turned many of them away from God.
In fact, the entire first generation of freed people except
four two Joshua and Caleb, and of course those who
were twenty years and younger. But the adults above that age,
every single one of them except two, they died in
the wilderness because of their unbelief, because of their turning
away from God in one way or the other. You see,
but God said, don't you worry about that. I'm giving
you it as an example. I don't want you to
trust in yourself, and I'm giving you the promise that
every temptation that comes to you people have gone through before,
and the ones who were successful were trusting Me, meaning God.
And God is faithful, who will with the temptation provide
a way of escape so you can bear it. And
so all of the Bible's stories, including this one, are
for our understanding in our time, the stories of the flood,
the exodus that I just described, the time that God's
people were in Babylon and needed to be removed from Babylon,
and really Babylon needed to be removed from them too.
I wish I had the time. The experience of God's
people on Mount Carmel and Elijah and the prophets of
bay Allen Asta, those were not just historical models, but
they were also prophetic models. If you look at the
mindset of the people, the commitment levels of the people
during those days, we can see what not to do
and what to do. So all of those things are
for our learning, and we can learn to do what
accept the great and precious promises that come from God
that he's able, because He's faithful, to deliver us from
every single besetting sin, every single temptation, every trial, everything
that the devil cooks up on planet Earth. God is
able to deliver us from. And so here is an action.
And we have to be encouraged to read these stories,
but read them not just historically, but with our last
day's lenses on. We should see it for our times.
What does this tell me about God's justice, about his mercy,
about his deliverance even in the last days, And of
course God respects free will but still fulfills prophecy. We
can we can make our decision whatever way we're gonna go.
If God, be God, serve him. If you want to
go another way, you can, but I don't recommend it.
So God respects our free will, but he also will
fulfill the things that He has already shared. God can
perfectly steer the events that will happen in the Last days,
events that he revealed to the prophets. But guess what,
He's not going to force you. He's not going to
force me to love him or to serve him. There
are stories that warn, but there are also promises. Yes,
the stories warn us, but they also point to the
faithful God. I said, the faithful God who divides strength
and escape. So many stories through the Exodus, through Joseph
in Egypt, Elijah on Mount Carmel, and so forth. Ask
what does this teach me? Ask God, what does this
teach me about the times that I live? Where do
I see your faithfulness, the faithfulness of Christ in this story?
But really in my story? So when we see the
warnings of all of the events in history, we see
the warnings and prophetic teaching, we must also see the promises,
the promises that God is faithful and he will get
us through all that we need. 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,