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 Friday, September five,
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 through the Book of Exodus, and our caption
for today is the Sanctuary God's dwelling among Us. The
sanctuary God's dwelling among Us. We'll get into that in
just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome
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that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go
ahead and pray get underway. Father. We thank you for
this new morning and this time of preparation. Father, we
ask you to teach us to prepare our hearts for
the divine encounter. Teach us to prepare to see Jesus
face to face. Teach us to prepare to have such
an experience that we want to welcome others into relationship
with you. In Jesus' name, I pray amen and Amen again. Okay,
So what I'm going to do is begin by reading
in the book Patriarchs and Profits, page three hundred and
forty nine. And let me just say to those who
study this lesson in a church setting weekly, please don't pass.
I want to give you a heads up, like don't
just run by Fridays. I think sometimes people think it's
an afterthought. The top of the study says, further thought
to help us to continue along the pathway that we've
been on for the beginning of the week. Right, So
it is not an afterthought. Okay, some gems are right
here and it reads the law of God enshrined within
the arc. We're talking about the arc of the Covenant.
We're talking about the stones, the tables where God actually
emblazoned on them, those sapphire tables emblazoned on them the
ten words, those ten promises of the Covenant, the ten commandments,
it says, was the great rule of righteousness and judgment.
And let me just say, in the scriptures, when you
see justice or judgment, most of the time, that actually
means righteousness. So if you're misjudging people, then that means
that you're holding them to the wrong standard of quote righteousness.
When you want justice, then you want the righteousness of
God to prevail. You understand. Let me continue that law
pronounced death upon the transgressor. Now we have a problem,
brothers and sisters. We have a problem because the one
who loves us, the one who loved us so much
that he gave everything that we needed when he created us,
is in a situation now where those whom he loved
that his only intent for was to live eternally in bliss,
never ever experiencing evil, are now experiencing evil by choice.
Adam Eve decided that they wanted to experience the knowledge
of evil. God only wanted them to have the knowledge
of good, but they chose the wrong path. And now
all of us because of Adam's sin, Adam in particular
his sin. Now the Bible says the soul that sinneth,
it shall die. And we're talking about eternal death. We're
not talking about getting God forbid run over by taxi.
We're not talking about that. We're saying from the scriptures
that God is in a pickle. And I know that
that offended some people because you're like, no, God cannot
be in a pickle. Okay, you're right. I take it back.
I take it back. So the Bible teaches us that
God is just, that is, he's righteous, and he is
the justifier. He's the one who can make righteous whom
those who surrender our will to him. God, through his
infinite wisdom and love, so loved the world that he
gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish but have everlasting life. God didn't send
his son into the world to condemn the world, but
that the world through him might be saved. Well, what
does that mean in the context of what we're saying.
So God's judgment, his law of justice, his law of righteousness,
his standard of holiness is as it is. It is objective.
It doesn't care who is who. If you sin against
the law of God, against God himself, then the only
outcome is death. But in this case, the way God
becomes the justifier is that Jesus, taking on human flesh
after four thousand years of degradation, becomes the representative of humanity.
And as the representative of humanity, Jesus demonstrated what it
was like to actually surrender his will in every single
facet of his life to God. And when he did that,
and he did it successfully and then died the death
that we deserve, he was obedient unto death, even the
death of the cross. When he did that, now he
was able to save to the uttermost those who are
called by him, because he, Jesus liveth ever liveth to
make intercession for us. Meaning he can lay his success
bazillions of dollars. I made that word up, his bazillions
of spiritual success dollars in the infinite well of the
bank of God. He now applies that to your account.
If you are his child, if you're surrendering his will,
your will to him. And so now the death that
a transgressor deserves, Jesus has taken that. And all we
need to do is yield our will to God so
that he can apply that to our account. Let me
read the rest of this. The law pronounced death upon
the transgressor. But above the law was the mercy seat.
So I told you the reality, the genuine article. But
now we're reading about the visual standard that we could
see when in the Old Testament we could see that
there was an arc of the covenant where the two
cherubim were on the outside, and that the seat was
representative of the throne of God. But that seat was
mercy seat. It was the mercy seat. And below the
mercy seat were the tables of the law. And so
that means that before we get to the law that
now judgeth me. According to the hymn writer, we get
to the mercy of God, who's looking out for me.
He's the one who's looking out for me so that
I can be saved. And so we see the mercy
seat upon which the presence of God was revealed, and
from which, by virtue of atonement, pardon was granted to
the repentant sinner. So I said all of this already,
But what does it mean to repent? It is that
God gives us godly sorrow for sin, and then he
enables us to make a right about turn, a one
hundred and eighty degree turn, and go in the opposite
direction of our sin, opposite direction of our broken relationship
with God, opposite direction of I'll write a prescription for
God and then tell him how to save me, the
opposite direction of excepting that it's somehow noble to be
poor and broken and needy, God has given us the
ability to turn the shoulder and then come into the
right direction, which is relationship with Him. Let me continue
thus in the work of Christ for our redemption, symbolized
by the sanctuary service. Mercy and truth are met. Hallelujah. Together,
righteousness and peace have kissed each other. According to Psalms,
chapter eighty five and verse ten. So God is so good,
and you want to say, well, how good is he?
He is so good that God has chosen to tabernacle
with us. He said, have them make a sanctuary that
I may dwell among them. The goal of the sanctuary
was to give us a window into the mind of
God about how we are saved. Make it a great days,
joining us listening friends.
Speaker 1: 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,