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 Monday, November ten,
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 Passover. Passover. Before we get into that,
I'd like to just say welcome to you. You to
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one of the ways that we continue to build faith
and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we
will get underway. Father, we do thank you for this
day and forgetting us thus far in our work week.
We're on day number two. God, thank you for the
ability to do whatever it is that we've been called
to do. Please pass over our lives with those things
that are meant only for people who don't love you.
In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again Passover Passover.
Type in the chat what the passover means to you?
What does the passover mean to you? If anything? And
if if nothing, or you don't understand, and type a
question mark like what what does the passover mean to you?
What the passover means to me, without even going into
the historic call context, is that when God is protecting me,
I said to me, so I asked you for you
for me. When God is protecting me from the things
that happened to his enemy, I am protected by virtue
of the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. What qualifies me to
be covered, to be hidden from to be in God
in Christ as a refuge in the time of trouble
is the fact that Jesus Christ gave his life for me,
and not only that, he gave his life for me.
And then as he went to sleep in the tomb
until the sabbath was finished, and he rose again took
up his life. On that Sunday morning. He then entered
into the heavenly sanctuary. And for however many years he's
been there. Since then he has been functioning as our
great high priest. Yes, there was a time before eighteen
forty four where was all about forgiveness, all about forgiveness,
and now we are in the phase where it is
about all about cleansing, all about cleansing and reuniting us
with God in the fullest sense. And so when God
passes over us with the calamities that are judgments against
people who don't love Him, it is because we are
adopted as his children in the beloved Jesus Christ. I'm grateful,
I am grateful, and so and so. In this lesson
we go back to the Bible book of Joshua and
we learn a few a few lessons, a few lessons.
But our first lesson is coming in from Exodus chapter twelve.
I took you on a wild goose chain. My bad.
We're talking about Joshua. But We're going back to Exodus,
chapter twelve and verse six, and the Bible reads, and
ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the
same month, and the whole assembly of the Congregation of
Israel shall kill it in the evening, kill it in
the evening. Of course, we are, you know, really jumping
into the middle of the story. But the concept is
to remember before we advanced. So God's people stood on
the threshold of battle. Jerich Cole's walls loomed large, and
the danger was near. Yet before engaging the enemy, Joshua
led the people to celebrate passover. We went back to
the book of Exodus, and it was an intentional act
of remembrance. Before conquering new territory, they paused to remember
who had delivered them from bondage when the first born
of all in Egypt had to go. And God had
told the people to sprink to to to spread the
blood over the door posting on the lintel, and for
those who would come into the home that was covered
by the blood in the way that God had prescribed,
the Angel of Death would pass over instead of passing through.
And so this was a way for God's people to
commemorate the deliverance. The Passover wasn't simply a ritual. It
was a declaration that victory comes through redemption. Our true
read our true victory comes through the redemption. That is,
God paid the debt through Christ. He paid the debt
ah to to that we that we had to die
the second death because of our sin, so that we
could live eternal life. With eternal life. The same God
who brought them out of Egypt would lead them into Canaan.
When we face battle in life in twenty twenty five,
in the month of November and beyond. The first step
is not to fight harder, not to just grind brothers
and sisters, but to remember deeper, more deeply, Remember the Cross,
Remember what Jesus did all the way back on Calvary.
Remember the covenant that God has made with his people
and kept through Christ for his people and the faithfulness
of God. And so the action step, apart from all
the remembrance that I shared with you, is before tackling
your next challenge. I think I've said this to you before,
but now we spin it a little bit so we
can get a different perspective. We need a different facet
when we look at it from a different light. We say,
before tackling your next challenge, stop and thank God for
your past, for his deliverance of you in the past.
And then we can say gratitude precedes victory. I want
you to spy on God when you pray and when
you are asking God for something. I want you to
mark the time when you started to ask God for
whatever it was, and then when God gives you an answer,
whether it's yes or no. But when God gives you
his answer that will glorify him and will satisfy you.
M it will glorify him and will satisfy you. Once
He has done that, then in reality, I want you
to be the first to give thanks. I want you
to be spying. Is this it? He said? He said, yes, Okay, God,
thank you. I thank you for answering my prayer. Is
this it? Is this it? Oh? He said? No, God,
I thank you. I thank you for saying no, because
you know what best serves your calling on my life.
So thank you. Gratitude precedes victory. The second lesson is
is lamb. The lamb comes before the land. The Lamb
comes before the land. You weren't expecting that. In First
Corinthians chapter five and verse seven, the Bible reads, for
even Christ, our passover is sacrificed for us. You see,
the people of God's celebration of passover in enemy territory
symbolized their faith in the same blood that saved them
in Egypt, that would secure them in Canaan. All of
those years later, I can hear the song the blood
that Jesus shed for me way back on Calvary, The
blood that gives me strength from day today shall never
lose its power. The Passover always pointed to the lamb
of God, Jesus Christ, who frees his people from bondage
to sin at what we call the Last Supper. We
would probably not necessarily call it that. We would say
in our case it would be the Communion now, huh, Well,
whatever you call it, Jesus transformed the Passover into a
memorial of his sacrifice. Every time we reflect on the Cross,
we spiritually renew our covenant with the one who conquered death.
Our greatest victories flow from his special work, and so
the action step is to keep the cross in view,
keep God's cross in view, and then yield your will
when he shows you the way. 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,