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, June eleven,
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, and our caption
for today is Haymen and Satan. That's interesting, Hey Man
and Satan. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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we will get underway. Father, thank you for this day
that comes right in the middle of the week. And
I pray God that you will give us the power
to get over the hump here, the speed bump here
in this week and then go down toward the Sabbath
with a new outlook. Father, Please teach us the lessons
we need to live today. Gez name I pray Amen
and DayMen again Hayman and Satan. So there's so much
in the story of Esther that we are not drilling today.
But I want you to read the entire book of Esther.
It's a short book and see what God has to
say to you. But Pastor Boonstra pointed out something very
interesting in the story of Esther. We meet Hayman who
is hungry for position and power. So let's pause right
here for one moment. Answer the question for yourself. I'm
not asking you to type it in the chat or
anything like that. Are you hungry for power and or position?
And please, let's not run by this. Even in the church,
there are people who either naturally or you've been socialized
to be hungry for power and position. If that is
something that's in you, talk to God about it. Because
there are times that God positions us in power. Yes,
but when we're hungry for it, that's a different matter. Altogether.
This is a deliberate pause. Now he has given a
great degree of prominence in the empire. Now you know,
in the Bible, we see that Moses was given prominence,
Joseph was given prominence, prominence, Daniel, Michel, Azariah, a Hannah,
and Ayah. We're given positions of prominence. So that's not
the challenge. But above all other princes. But if we
read in Ezekiel chapter twenty eight and in Isaiah chapter
fourteen about Lucifer, we can find some parallels. You see,
God gave Lucifer a position of prominence. We can find
some parallels with Hayman, an evil antagonist to God's chosen people.
Now this is it who refuses to bow to God's supremacy.
You see, power is not the issue. Position is not
the issue. It's the attitude, it is the heart stance.
How do we see ourselves in our connection with God?
How do we see our responsibility when God and trusts
power to us. So what I'm going to do is
go straight down, and if we have time, we'll go
back to the parallel between Hayman and Lucifer. But we're
going to go down now to the center of the
lesson where there is a comparison between Esther chapter three
and two chapters in the Book of Revelation, chapters thirteen
and twelve and thirteen. Okay, and so this is where
we begin. This is where we begin. I'm going to
give you five parallels. Okay. The first one comes in
from Esther chapter three and verse eight, and it reads,
in part, there is a certain people. Their laws are
diverse from all people. So there in the story, God's
people's laws are identified as as different. I think the
Bible says that we are not to be conformed to
this world, but be transformed by the renewing of our mind.
And so the Bible says in Revelation chapter twelve and
verse seventeen that the dragon was wroth with God's people
who keep the commandments of God. And the Bible continues
and so in both cases. Because it's the same holy
ghost that has God's people having different ways of living,
different ways of seeing the world, different ways of making contribution,
responsibility that is different in our hearts than the people
of the world. We have God's people always being different.
The difference, though, invites resistance that is from the world
from people who don't love God, but it also reveals
our loyalty to God, so it invites some resistance, but
it also brings a light to how loyal we are
to God. And so for us today in twenty twenty five,
because it's interesting and easy to kind of look back
and break down forensically what went right what went wrong
back then. But we need to live boldly by God's
standard even when we know people are looking like when
Daniel was worshiping God and praying same way toward Jerusalem
three times a day with his windows open, even though
he knew that there was an edict that would have
gotten him into some trouble. While we live boldly by
God's standard and not by the world's approval. Now comes
from verse nine of Esther chapter three. Let it be
written that they may be destroyed and I think somebody's
already right running right before me in Revelation chapter thirteen
and verse fifteen, that as many as would not worship, Yeah,
the worldly paradigm, the religio political power should be killed.
And so in both cases there were laws to destroy
the people of God, or there will be laws two
where and will be laws to destroy the people of God.
Why because we're the people of God. Because the devil
is still angry with Jesus and can't get at him,
and so the enemy of God's people always seeks legal
means to silence the faithful. I hope you're listening. This
is the reality. We could go down through history, but
we just literally don't have the time. So today, build
a faith with God. Jesus said, He is the author
and finisher of our faith through Paul. Build a faith
today that can stand when your life may depend upon it.
So when God is giving you the opportunity to simply
tell the truth when there are two options on the table,
that's a way to build faith. When your month and
money don't line up, when the month is longer than
the money, and you have to be honest with your
returning of tie and your free will offering or how
to acquire more money. You need to be honest and
not steal, not lie, not cheat, or do anything that
is unlike God. That is one of the ways we
build our faith. When you and your spouse are talking
to one another and you have a disagreement, whether to
show respect or disrespect is another way to determine if
we're building faith or we're building a break between us
and God. And so another one comes from verse twelve,
All that Hayman had command it unto the king's lieutenants. Yeah,
that was written in such a way, just like in
Revelation chapter thirteen, verses fourteen and fifteen, telling those who
live on earth to make an image to the beast.
In the final days, the last of the last days,
laws will be passed that directly challenge God's authority. What
do we need to do? What is our privilege to do?
Stay rooted in scripture so you recognize when policy becomes persecution. Oh,
I wish I had the time. Stay connected to God
so you can recognize when policy becomes persecution. But stay
loyal to God.
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,