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, November fourteenth,
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 Lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our caption
for today is the Atonement on Mount Eball Atonement on
Mount Ebol. Before we get into that, I'd like to
say welcome to everyone joining us, especially those joining us
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one of the ways that we continue to build faith
and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray. Father, we thank
you for the Atonement. Thank you for making us so
we are at one with you through Christ. Help us
to live that way until Jesus comes in Jesus name,
I pray, Amen and Amen again the Atonement on Mount Ebo.
Now I'm going to read from Joshua chapter eight, beginning
at verse thirty to set the stay the stage almost
at standard the stage, and it reads, then Joshua built
an altar unto the Lord God of Israel on Mount Ebol,
as Moses, the servant of God commanded the children of Israel,
as it is written in the Book of the Law
of Moses. So I love how all of this time
later that Joshua is using the Book of the Law
um Torah to say, okay, well, what is our next step? See,
God had already inspired the man of God Moses. He
had already inspired him and given him instructions for many
of the things that the children of God were to do.
And so thank God, Joshua didn't turn his back on
those truths. He returned to the scriptures and said, this
is what God has commanded. Do you return to the scriptures,
no matter how many years later from whatever point you
marked a spot in your life, ten fifteen years later,
and it's like, okay, now God is reminding you of something,
and you're like, oh, where did those instructions go? Where
where did the guidance go? Wait, let me go to
the word of God. What do you have to say
about this? God? Are you doing that? Are you living
that reality? As it was written in the Law of Moses,
an alter of whole stones. They weren't to be cut
or chiseled or formed, because that would drag them back
into idolatry over which no man had lift any iron.
And they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the Lord, and
sacrificed peace offerings. Aren't you glad that God has made
provision for your salvation so that when you have had
that forgiveness of sins, have the cleansing of God in
your life, that you can live at peace with God.
You can offer yourself in a peaceful situation, not always
in this moment having to apologize, because you've resolved that
between you and God already, You've already agreed with God
in confession. You've already received by faith the sorrow for sin,
godly sorrow for sin, as Paul called it. And you
have also received the ability, the will and to do
like to turn the shoulder, to go the opposite direction
from your sin and move toward holiness. Aren't you glad
that we can do this? And so the Bible is
teaching us we can be at peace with God, but
we must do so by faith. And so our first lesson,
our first lesson, grace meets justice on the mountain of
the curse. First, let's read from Galatians chapter three. If
you notice, we go between Old and New Testaments when
we're teaching this, because we live in the New Testament
era and verse thirteen, Christ hath redeemed us from the
curse of the law being made a curse for us.
You see at Mount Ebel, justice and mercy met. Justice
and mercy met The judgment was deserved, but God's grace
was offered. Every stroke of the sacrificial blade pointed forward
to Calvary, where Jesus gave his life for us, where
Jesus became both the altar and the offering. See, Mount
Ebel was not chosen randomly. It was the mountain of
the curse, the place symbolizing the consequence of breaking God's law.
Aren't you glad that God goes into that place where
everything went wrong, into that place where you broke your
covenant with God, into that place, that secret place, the
skeletons in the closet, place like up under the bed
where nobody knows you're hiding those sins place those places.
God goes into those places with his spiritually holy broom
and mop and bucket and cleansing wave to destroy the
yoke that are hiding in those places. That was the
symbol of the consequence of breaking God's law. And yet
right there the man of God, y Joshua Yeshua I
wish I had the time, built an altar and offered sacrifices.
It is the place where we fail that God needs
to cleanse. Isn't that so this act revealed a profound truth.
Even in judgment, God provides mercy. Let me just say this.
By setting up the altar on Ebel, God's people declared
that forgiveness and restoration could be found only through atonement.
That is where God makes us, so that we are
at one with Him, at one mint with Him. Where
we were first hostile toward God, we were first enemies
of God, but now we are at one. We are
one with God. The blood on that altar prefigured, or
was a shadow of, or a type of, the sacrifice
of Christ, the blood of Christ who bore these of
sin so that humanity might receive the blessing of life.
Armorn't you glad? I'm gonna keep asking you. Aren't you
glad that God made provision for you? Hmm? Aren't you
glad that God has made provision for you? Our second
lesson is the Cross turns sorrow into celebration. Reading from
Hebrews Chapter ten, verses nineteen through twenty two, I will
paraphrase or leave out a few of the words, having therefore,
brethren boldness, boldness to enter into the holiest by the
blood of Jesus. Let us draw near with a true heart,
in full assurance of faith. Thank God, in full assurance
of faith. Ellen White reminds us that at the communion table,
believers are not to stand in the shadow of the cross,
but in its saving light. Did you get the difference?
Speaker 1: I know?
Speaker 2: People say hide us under the shadow of the cross.
We say that a lot. Well I don't say that,
but a lot of people God's people say that in
prayer at the communion table, at the place where we
are to commune and connect with God and to become
one with God. We're not standing in the shadow of
the cross, not anymore. We're having our sin. We've had
our sin record forgiven. We are in the process of
being cleansed from all unrighteousness and having that reality now
we can stand in the saving light of the Cross.
The altar in Mount Ebo was not a memorial of sin.
That wasn't the goal a memorial of sin to constantly
put in your face like, boy, maybe I shouldn't say
it this way, but really, like, there are some okay,
some paradigms where people are recovering from alcoholism, right, they
say they're recovering alcoholics. Well, I would say recovering from alcoholism.
And they may introduce themselves like, hello, my name is
ld my name is LDH. My name is El David Harris,
and I am a recovering alcoholic. I have been cleaned
for this number of days, weeks, months, or years. And
it's like, ah, well, that's a memorial, no disrespect, but
that's a memorial that's constantly reminding us of the thing
that defeated us. So in this moment, God is saying,
it's not that I want to make a memorial of
your sin, but a proclamation of the victory. So our
focus shifts from the things that we have done and
failed at, and it shifts to the victory that Jesus
has given us. I thank God for his victory. Make
it a great day, 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,