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 Thursday, August
twenty nine, twenty twenty four. 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 through the Book of Mark. Our caption
for today is the Greatest Commandment, the Greatest Commandment. We'll
get into that in just a moment, but first i'd
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Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day,
for the opportunity that we have to pray. Father, Please
give us the spirit of the law in our bosom.
Please write your laws in our hearts, Father, and in
our minds. Help us to live like Jesus lived. In
Jesus name, I pray, Amen and amen again the greatest Commandment.
Now this is a very interesting discussion. I like it.
I like it. We'll get into it now from the
Bible Book of Mark, chapter twelve, and we'll read beginning
at verse twenty eight. Okay twelve, and we will read
beginning at verse number twenty eight. And the Bible reads.
And one of the scribes came, and, having heard them
reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well,
asked him, which is the first commandment of all? He said,
which is the first commandment of all? And Jesus answered him,
the first of all commandments is here, oh Israel, the Lord,
our God is one lord. And thou shalt love the
Lord with thy heart, all thy heart, and with all
thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all
thy strength. This is the first great or first commandment,
and the second, namely, is like unto this, thou shalt
love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment
greater than these. And the scribes said to him, well mastered,
thou hast said the truth. For there is one God,
and there is none other but He. And to love
him with all the heart, and with all the understanding,
and with all the soul, and with all the strength,
and to love his neighbor as himself is more than
all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. And when Jesus saw that,
he answered discreetly he said, unto him, thou art not
far from the Kingdom of God. He said, thou art
not far from the Kingdom of God. And no man
after that durst ask him any question. I really love
what just happened here? First of all, sometimes we in
twenty twenty four, like we modern day believers, categorize all scribes, Pharisees, Herodians, sadducees,
and all of the priests and leaders of the people
of God back in Jesus's days times, we type cast them.
We say that that all of them were wicked and
that they were they were enemies of God. And it's like, well, no, no, no, no, no
no no no, no no no. That is almost like
modern day racism, like sometimes people say, because you're from
a certain group of people, then fill in the negative
blank here, and it's like, no, that is not the reality.
It is true that they're in that reality. Then with
these religious leaders, that there were some people who did
not live according to God's principles, some of them were
enemies of God, but not all were like this. Not
all of any people group are like anything except humans.
All of us are humans and the rest of it.
We need to find out, like we need to ask
the question, We need to experience people. We need to
see the fruit that the lives of individuals bear. And
so this individual scribe who had details like this brother
knew the law of God, like he was a faithful scribe,
but apparently apparently he had real interest in God. Apparently
he was. He was open, and he was he was
receptive to Jesus Christ. And so when Jesus answers him,
the man is satisfied. When I say satisfied, I mean
he's satisfied that Jesus quote is on the right track.
That's a whole discussion, right. I understand, like Jesus is
the one who gave this truth. But I'm saying, like
this man, it resonated with him. He knew that he
was having an encounter with someone who was fully connected
to the truth concerning God's word. And he called that
man Jesus, He called him master, and then he reiterated
the Shamah Shamah. So Jesus, now he's he's reciting to
the man the law in the law from the book
of Deuteronomy as we see it now Deuteronomy chapter six,
where Shama is the Lord hero Israel. The Lord our
God is one Lord, and thou shalt worship him with
everything that you have and everything that you are, Shamah.
That is what resonated with the people of God. Then,
and to hear and to do was one. And in
the same to hear and to do hear about the
Lord our God, who is one Lord. I wish I
had the time to deal with the one Lord part.
But he also said to now worship and live according
to the principles of what you hear, hearing and doing
are the same. You hear the commandments of God, then
do them. If you can discern the voice of God,
then do what the voice says. What God says to you.
Hear our prayer, O Lord, We sing that sometimes among
ourselves in religious exercises. Here our prayer, O Lord, ligne
thine ear to us, you say, hearing and then doing
incline your ear to us. Okay, okay, he's key. He's
giving keen attention to our prayers and then grant us.
He's acting now on our behalf. Grant us thy peace.
And so we agree now that to hear and to
do is the same. What what is Jesus getting at here?
He said? The first commandment of all is to love
God with everything. And I love it because because there's
nothing on reserve, like there's nothing that we hold back.
Our habits on the internet. We love God with those.
The money that either we have or we will have
in the future, We love God with those. The relationships
that we develop with people, just people everyday people ja
at our jobs, where we exercise, when we are on
the road in the taxi, when we encounter people, if
we do fly overseas or wherever we go in the airports,
we are loving God with that aspect of our hearts
and in those secret places, those things that we entertain
in our minds that nobody will ever know, nobody will
ever know, we worship God in that space too. We
worship God with all of our hearts and all of
our minds, even those things that we don't want to
let go of. But because we love God and we
are worshipers, we say, okay, God, we yield. I yield
like I open up my mind and heart to you
so that you can have your way with me. Thank
you God. And so that is the first and great commandment.
May I just say right here that this is a
miracle for a human being who is a son or
a daughter of Adam, who was the first man. He
was the one that represented the human race. He gave
us the disease of desiring to sin. But it's a
miracle when a human being in that condition can learn
to love God. It's a miracle. And so when Jesus
says the second is like unto it, now we can
see that to love human beings is also a miracle.
I'm not talking about loving human beings because they quote
love us. I'm not saying that we love human beings
in response to how they treat us. I'm saying to
have the kind of love that Jesus is talking about
for human beings, loving my neighbor as myself like unto
the first Law. It's also miraculous, and it is only
because God writes his laws and our hearts and on
our minds under the New Covenant, that we can keep
the first and second Commandment.
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,