1 00:00:01,199 --> 00:00:04,160 Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, 2 00:00:04,599 --> 00:00:07,879 because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:12,240 today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's 4 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:15,400 portion of heavenly manna the word of God to keep 5 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:19,199 us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going 6 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:23,280 to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today 7 00:00:23,559 --> 00:00:27,160 and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives. 8 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:31,879 Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker, 9 00:00:32,039 --> 00:00:33,079 Elle David Harris. 10 00:00:33,119 --> 00:00:36,119 Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Sunday, May fourth, 11 00:00:36,320 --> 00:00:40,520 twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El David Harris. 12 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:43,280 I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion 13 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:46,439 where we give you God's word every single day, and 14 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:50,359 today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson 15 00:00:50,439 --> 00:00:55,000 study series how to study Bible Prophecy, and our caption 16 00:00:55,079 --> 00:01:03,079 for today is futile Sacrifices Tile Sacrifices. We'll get into 17 00:01:03,159 --> 00:01:05,439 that in just a moment, but before we do, I'd 18 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:08,519 like to just say welcome to everyone joining us, especially 19 00:01:08,719 --> 00:01:11,760 those joining us for the very first time. I'm asking 20 00:01:11,799 --> 00:01:14,280 you to go over to your Daily Portion dot com. 21 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:19,079 Please join our online community. Also, please please go and 22 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:24,439 get that your Daily Portion companion guide on how to 23 00:01:24,519 --> 00:01:28,760 study the Bible prophecies. Of course, because we're applying the 24 00:01:28,799 --> 00:01:32,519 things that we're learning here in the quarterly in four 25 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:35,719 key areas. You're doing very well. You're doing very well. 26 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:39,239 I told you that it was based on your participation 27 00:01:39,359 --> 00:01:42,519 whether I would continue this, and you said, let's go. 28 00:01:42,599 --> 00:01:46,040 So we're going. Okay, So do all of that please 29 00:01:46,200 --> 00:01:49,359 at your Daily Portion dot com. This is one of 30 00:01:49,359 --> 00:01:53,840 the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. 31 00:01:54,200 --> 00:01:58,280 Let's go ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father, 32 00:01:58,359 --> 00:02:01,239 we do thank you this morning for a new week. 33 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:04,599 Thank you for giving us the opportunity to open your 34 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:12,800 word and to sacrifice, sacrifice ourselves for you. In Jesus's name, 35 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:20,479 I pray, Amen and Amen again. Futile sacrifices, Okay, what 36 00:02:20,639 --> 00:02:25,439 really makes a sacrifice acceptable to God? And I'm talking 37 00:02:25,439 --> 00:02:28,919 about it from an Old Testament perspective. We don't do 38 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:34,240 sacrificing like in the traditional sense anymore because Jesus Christ 39 00:02:34,599 --> 00:02:38,599 has always been the fulfillment of what the Old Testament 40 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:42,919 system of sacrifices and the ministry of the priests and 41 00:02:43,000 --> 00:02:43,840 the high priests, etc. 42 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:44,439 Speaker 1: Were. 43 00:02:45,159 --> 00:02:48,400 Speaker 2: But now this is you know, past tense, like Jesus 44 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:53,479 is the fulfillment of all of that. But what made 45 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:58,599 sacrifices acceptable, Well, let me just start with we needed 46 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:02,759 to yield ourselves to God and become sacrifices. We had 47 00:03:02,800 --> 00:03:06,759 to give our entire sels love for God in the 48 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:09,719 fullest sense of the word. For everything that we have, 49 00:03:09,960 --> 00:03:14,280 everything that we are, is God's. And when we surrender 50 00:03:14,479 --> 00:03:18,400 our will to God, then that was the beginning stage 51 00:03:18,520 --> 00:03:23,280 of what acceptable sacrifices even looked like before we got 52 00:03:23,319 --> 00:03:26,479 to the sacrificing. Now, I'm going to read a quote 53 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:30,240 straight from the Lesson Patriarchs and Prophets, page seventy two, 54 00:03:30,319 --> 00:03:33,400 and then we'll make some application here the Bible read, 55 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:36,120 I mean part of me. The Lesson in this quote 56 00:03:36,199 --> 00:03:41,400 reads able grasped the great principle of redemption. He saw 57 00:03:41,479 --> 00:03:44,520 himself a sinner. Do you see yourself as a sinner 58 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:50,080 who needs salvation? And he saw sin and its penalty 59 00:03:50,520 --> 00:03:55,360 death standing between his soul and communion with God. He 60 00:03:55,479 --> 00:04:00,919 brought the slain victim, talking about the animal sacrifice sacrificist life, 61 00:04:01,319 --> 00:04:05,319 thus acknowledging the claims of the law that had been transgressed. 62 00:04:05,360 --> 00:04:10,199 So Abel knew that he turned himself away from God's law. 63 00:04:10,719 --> 00:04:14,400 He saw that he didn't do what God said, and 64 00:04:14,439 --> 00:04:17,680 in some cases when God told him to told him 65 00:04:17,720 --> 00:04:20,079 not to do a thing, he did those things. So 66 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:22,959 he knew that he was a sinner who needed a savior. 67 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,160 And so this is why he did exactly what God 68 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:29,399 said to deal with the sin problem. Let me continue 69 00:04:29,399 --> 00:04:32,720 the quote. Through the shed blood, he looked to the 70 00:04:32,879 --> 00:04:38,160 future sacrifice Christ dying on the cross of Calvary. We're 71 00:04:38,199 --> 00:04:41,639 going to talk about that a lot tomorrow, and trusting 72 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:45,920 in the atonement that was there to be made. He 73 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:51,959 had the witness that he was righteous, and his offering 74 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:57,839 part of me was accepted. Why was it accepted because 75 00:04:57,920 --> 00:05:00,720 he knew he was a sinner. He he needed to 76 00:05:00,759 --> 00:05:05,439 be saved by grace through faith. He also right back here, 77 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:12,480 he also knew that he was to give this sacrifice 78 00:05:12,519 --> 00:05:18,040 that pointed forward to the ultimate sacrifice because of his 79 00:05:18,199 --> 00:05:22,759 own sin. Yeah, all right, let's make it a little 80 00:05:22,759 --> 00:05:25,439 bit more practical, Okay, So we're gonna go here and 81 00:05:26,319 --> 00:05:30,839 get some lessons now from the Bible. So in Isaiah 82 00:05:30,920 --> 00:05:35,399 chapter one, Isaiah chapter one and verse eleven, the Bible reads. 83 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:39,680 To what purpose is this multitude of your sacrifices? Unto me, 84 00:05:40,120 --> 00:05:42,680 said the Lord, I am full of burnt offerings of 85 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:45,600 rams and the fat of fed beasts, And I delight 86 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:49,399 not in the blood of bullocks or lambs or he'd goats. 87 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:53,480 So the people of God, many of them, were giving 88 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:57,519 sacrifices trying to be a recommendation of themselves to God. 89 00:05:57,920 --> 00:05:59,959 They felt like if they would jump through these hoops, 90 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:02,000 if they would tick the boxes, if they would do 91 00:06:02,519 --> 00:06:06,560 these things outwardly, then somehow it would recommend them to 92 00:06:06,639 --> 00:06:09,639 God and that God would owe them something. But God 93 00:06:09,759 --> 00:06:18,800 really desires sincerity and genuine devotion, not just religious ritual 94 00:06:19,800 --> 00:06:23,959 Are you doing religious rituals in your life that have 95 00:06:24,079 --> 00:06:27,040 no meaning? Like I'm talking about things that we espouse, 96 00:06:27,160 --> 00:06:30,600 like prayer, Like are you praying on a regular basis? 97 00:06:30,879 --> 00:06:34,600 And really it's just talking out loud to the ceiling, 98 00:06:34,759 --> 00:06:37,240 talking out loud to the roof, talking out loud to 99 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:40,000 the sky. And then once you've ticked that box, go 100 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:43,920 on to the same sinful life that you had before 101 00:06:43,959 --> 00:06:48,079 the prayer. Have you fasted for days or even weeks, 102 00:06:48,680 --> 00:06:52,560 and after the fast or even during the fast, thinking 103 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:56,639 that you recommended yourself to God and then somehow continue 104 00:06:56,680 --> 00:06:59,639 to oppress people. And if you are somebody who has 105 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:05,079 a health, or you have somebody who keeps your land 106 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:08,079 or cleans up for you somehow, or does anything for you, 107 00:07:08,160 --> 00:07:12,040 but you underpay them, disrespect them. I'm not saying you. 108 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:15,279 I'm just saying the collective you is that your reality. 109 00:07:15,399 --> 00:07:18,680 Jesus said, to keep those sacrifices. That is not the 110 00:07:18,839 --> 00:07:24,759 kind of sacrifice, sacrifice or fast that I have taught you. 111 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:30,639 It's to set the captives free, to relieve the oppressed, etc. Right, 112 00:07:30,759 --> 00:07:36,399 And so God wants our entire hearts, not just our rituals. 113 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:39,319 And then from Isaiah fifty six and verse seven, the 114 00:07:39,319 --> 00:07:43,040 Bible reads, even to them, will I bring to my 115 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:46,199 holy mountain and make them a joy, make them joyful 116 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:49,720 in my house of prayer. They're burnt offerings, and their 117 00:07:49,839 --> 00:07:54,040 sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine alter. For mine house 118 00:07:54,160 --> 00:07:56,800 shall be called a house of prayer for all people. 119 00:07:56,920 --> 00:07:59,439 Let me go back to the who. Okay, so the 120 00:07:59,519 --> 00:08:03,120 people who would have been considered a dry tree, people 121 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:06,439 who would have been considered separated from God, people who 122 00:08:06,519 --> 00:08:10,560 would have been ceremonially unclean according to the way that 123 00:08:10,879 --> 00:08:14,399 the people of God thought in those days. Those people, 124 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:18,560 God said, if you keep covenant with me huh, if 125 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:23,319 you turn away from your sin and keep also the Sabbath, 126 00:08:23,879 --> 00:08:27,319 then you will be given a name that is greater, 127 00:08:27,560 --> 00:08:30,079 that is better than of sons and of daughters. It 128 00:08:30,160 --> 00:08:33,080 is a name that will remain forever, and by the way, 129 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:38,759 I will accept you and your sacrifices. So righteousness is 130 00:08:38,879 --> 00:08:43,759 not confined to the people that were originally the people 131 00:08:43,799 --> 00:08:49,039 of God, but to everyone who ultimately learns to keep 132 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:52,399 covenant with God. I wish I had the time. I 133 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:55,120 wish I had the time. Let's go, Let's go to 134 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:58,120 my final lesson, because there are just too many here. 135 00:08:58,159 --> 00:09:01,919 In Isaiah, chapter forty nine and verse fifteen, the Bible reads, 136 00:09:01,960 --> 00:09:05,279 can a woman forget her sucking child and that she 137 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:09,159 should not have compassion on the sun of her won yea, 138 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:14,200 they may forget, yet I will not forget thee. So 139 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:20,000 God is compassionate. If God is compassionate toward me, then 140 00:09:20,039 --> 00:09:24,000 I should be compassionate toward others. May I say that 141 00:09:24,039 --> 00:09:29,679 one more time? Since God is compassionate toward me, I 142 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:33,399 have the privilege of being compassionate toward others. You want 143 00:09:33,399 --> 00:09:37,759 to be acceptable to God, then mirror his lifestyle, mirror 144 00:09:37,799 --> 00:09:41,720 his behavior, Submit your will to God, and live like 145 00:09:41,840 --> 00:09:44,639 Jesus did in all of your sacrifice. 146 00:09:45,159 --> 00:09:48,120 Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening to friends. Always remember we 147 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:51,320 cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that 148 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:54,320 comes from the mouth of God. This has been your 149 00:09:54,399 --> 00:10:00,279 daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah.