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, January 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, God's Love and Justice with lesson number three
under the caption to be pleasing to God hah, to
be pleasing to God. Before we get into that, I'd
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Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
Father and our God, Please thank you for this Sabbath
morning and for the privilege to be able to have
the fullness of your Holy Spirit, to be able to
be covered with the life of Jesus. I pray that
we will not try to please you, but that we
will embody the reality of pleasing you. In Jesus' name,
I pray Amen and Amen again. So this is an
interesting subject to me, and not just interesting. I love it.
I love it because the thought that we can be
pleasing in God's sight makes me want to just jump
up and say thank God. Because because there are so
many of us that are struggling with the voices of
our past when parents did not approve of us. Ah, well,
we couldn't do anything right, didn't, I tell you, Tom,
And then we wonder, like what did we do? Like
every time they say our names, whether it was our teachers,
whether it was our parents, whether it was somebody on
the street, it seemed as if and I said, seemed
it seemed as if we just couldn't do things right.
But I'm here to say today that even if your boss,
your supervisor, your manager, ah, even if the officials that
you meet on the road at times, even if the
mindset that you derived from your past when teachers and
parents and guardians were speaking to you, or if God
forbid you had brushes with the law as a juvenile,
even if you felt like you couldn't do anything right,
God is saying that you can be pleasing in his sight.
You can be pleasing in His sight. And the way
or the pathway to being pleasing to God is submitting
to him, not performing. Hm. I said, submitting to him,
not performing. And I know that there are some extreme
minded people who are like But Dave, are you saying
that we don't have to keep the law of God?
Absolutely not. I am not saying that. What I am
saying is that those who attempt to do God's will
without submitting first to God are no better than the
Pharisees that were against Jesus during his day. Of course,
we have Nicodemus and others who were for Jesus, But
I'm saying the ones who were his enemy, the ones
who were saying that he was not to heal on
the sabbath, like those individuals who dragged the woman who
was caught in air quotes in the very act of adultery,
and dragged her in front of Jesus. Those people, those
people who fasted for long periods of time and tithed
even their herbs, but would not set the captives free.
That would oppress people. Those who did not care for
the laying, the main, the blind, the halt. Those individuals,
but they would wear the Bible scriptures on their bodies.
Those individuals. Yeah, those individuals didn't submit to God, which
is why they would argue with God about what it
meant to be pleasing in his sight. You see where
I'm going with this. They were blind GUIDs, they were hypocrites.
So I'm saying that submission to God's will first now
becomes the breeding ground in a good way of God
keeping his promise that those who love him he will
cause to keep his commandments, all ten of them. Yes,
he wanted me to say that. You're listening for that word.
It's a clarion call. Yes, in the last days in
twenty twenty four, we are still responsible to God to
keep holy all of his ten commandments because He's written
them in our hearts and on our minds that law
of liberty. Okay, so we're clear on that, but we
still have this reality to deal with. See at Jesus's baptism.
At his baptism full of the Holy Ghost, Jesus heard
his stamp of approval from God, our Father. This is
my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased, and
so to be pleasing to God as a covenantal reality.
Adam and Eve when they were created, it was good, good,
and very good. Right Enoch, he walked with God. Noah
found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Moses said,
if we have found favor in your sight, then please
show me your glory. And then we see that we
are the anointed ones. We are anointed, We are anointed,
and we are as God's people submitted to him the
apple of his eye. Now there are times that God's
people will make mistakes, not because we have to, but
because we do. We choose that way, and if we
are still submissive to God's will, then we will make
a rite about turn. We will yield our will to God.
We will say that we are sorry and mean it,
and we will turn away from our sins. You understand
and accept the power that God puts in our lives
to do the right thing next time. And so now
I read from the Bible Book of Zephaniah Zephaniah Chapter three,
and I will read three verses from the amplified version
of the Bible. And the Bible reads verse five. The
Lord in the midst of her meaning God's people, is
uncompromisingly righteous. He will do no iniquity. Every morning he
brings his justice to light. That's righteousness. He fails not.
But the unjust person knows no shame. That means that
the unjust person doesn't really care what God thinks Verse fifteen.
For then it will be that the Lord has taken
away the judgments against you. You see, God's people had
gone astray. God's people had made promises, and those promises
were like ropes of sand. They had done what they
said they wouldn't do, and what they said they wouldn't
do they did. And they were sinful, and they were
full of iniquity, knowing that God is watching, and they
still went the wrong way. However, let me continue. He
has cast out your enemy. Who's your enemy? Brothers and sisters,
we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities
and hours, and the rulers of the darkness of this world,
and spiritual wickedness in high places. That's the devil and
his evil angels. He has cast out your enemy, the
King of Israel, even the Lord himself, is in the
midst of you. And after he has come to you,
you shall not experience or fear evil anymore. You're not
worried about your past. You're not worried if you're going
to do the wrong thing again, because all you're thinking
about is submitting yourself to God. Hallelujah. All you're thinking
about this Sabbath morning is yielding your will to God,
and that he covers you in his life and gives
you the strength to do his will. He in the
Bible says, and he after he has come to you,
you shall not fear or experience evil anymore. Verse sixteen.
In that day I said three, but I meant four.
In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, fear not,
oh Zion, let not your hand and sink down. That means,
don't be discouraged. Hah, don't be discouraged. Let not your
hands sink down, or be slow and listen less seventeen
and final. The Lord, your God is in the midst
of you. Aren't you glad that God is in the
midst of you, the Mighty One and Savior who saves.
He will rejoice over you with joy. He will rest
in silent satisfaction and in his love. He will be
silent and make no mention of past sins or even
recall them. He will exult over you with singing. You see,
God has invested everything in you so that you can
be pleasing to God and you can be 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,