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.
Speaker 2: Vibrant lives.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
Elle David Harris.
Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It is Monday, August
twenty six, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle
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 Bible Book of Mark, and
our caption for today is a cursed tree and a
cleansed temple. So much to say a cursed tree and
a cleansed temple. We'll get into that in just a moment,
but first I'd like to say welcome to you and
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Jesus will come like he's coming in our day, brothers
and sisters. That is the blessed hope. And so we
just ask God to give us the strength to continue
to do his work until Jesus comes. Let's go ahead
and pray and then get underway. Father, Thank you for
this day, Thank you for all that you have entrusted
to us. Thank you. I just pray that you will
cleanse our hearts, that you will come into our hearts
and lives, and you will cleanse our hearts in Jesus' name,
I pray amen and aamen again. Okay, so I'm not
going to set this story up. We're going to just
continue reading in the Book of Mark chapter eleven where
we left off. I was tempted to go into the
story yesterday, but I should not jump the gun. So
let's continue now at verse twelve of Mark chapter eleven,
and the Bible reads and on the morrow, so we
now know the triumphal entry has happened. There's some controversy
related to that, because the one that Jesus raised, Lazarus,
he's leading that procession. It's a long story we didn't
talk about yesterday. But the question for us was really like,
are we willing to let Jesus into our lives? Are
we willing to let him come in as the king
and ascend and sit down on the throne of our lives?
And then we raise him up in our mindset as
king of kings and lord of lords, so that when
he does come back to planet Earth as the one
that we had been looking for to ascend the throne
of David his father in air quotes, will we say,
blessed is he that cometh upon in the name of
the Lord. Will we say, lo, this is our God.
We have waited for him and he will save us.
Or will we run and ask the rocks and beg
the rocks to fall on us and hide us from
the face of him that is seated upon the throne.
That is the question. And we need to be discerning
and ask and answer that question in our lives today.
And I hope it was the latter. That you will
welcome Jesus into your life today and everything you say
and do, all of your relationships, your business deal and otherwise,
like I am making a decision as well, and so
on the Morrow, verse twelve, when they were come to Bethany,
he was hungry. Jesus was hungry, and seeing a fig
tree afar off having leaves, he came if happily he
might find anything there on. And he came to it,
and he found nothing but leaves. For the time of
figs was not yet. But let me just say to you,
based on what we will see in a moment, and
so you don't think it was extreme, Jesus saw signs that,
even though it was not time for figs, he saw
signs that this fig tree was supposed to bear figs,
and Jesus verse fourteen answered and said, unto it, no
man eat fruit of the hereafter or ever. And his
disciples heard it, and they come to Jerusalem, and Jesus
went into the temple and to began and began to
cast out them that sold and bought in the temple,
and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the
seats of them that's sold doves, and would not suffer
that any man should carry any vessels through the temple.
There's so much to say, Lord, give us strength here,
so much to say. And he taught them saying, is
it not written that my house shall be called a
house of prayer in all nations? But ye have made
it a den of thieves. The scribes and the chief
priest heard it and sought how they might destroy him.
Why were the chief priests trying to destroy Jesus Christ,
the ultimate high priest, the great high priest that stands
and understands the feelings of our infirmities, like why would
they want to destroy Jesus? Well, for they feared him
because all the people and was astonished about his doctrine.
And when even was come, he went out of the city.
And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the
fig tree, which fig tree, the one that he had cursed,
and dried up from the roots. And Peter, calling to remembrance,
seth unto him, Master, behold the fig tree which thou cursest.
It's withered away. And Jesus answered said, unto them, have
faith in God. Verily, I say unto you that whosoever
shall say unto this mountain, be thou removed, and be
thou cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in
his heart, but shall believe that those things which he
seeth shall come to pass. He shall have whatsoever he saith. Therefore,
I say unto you, what thingsoever ye desire, when ye pray, believe,
and ye shall receive them, and ye shall have them
almost there, almost there, And when he and when ye
stand praying forgive, if ye have aught against any that
your Father also, which is in heaven, may forgive you
your trespasses. But if ye do not forgive, neither will
your Father, which is in Heaven, forgive your trespasses. Let's
do this now partially in reverse. Now Jesus understand the
hearts of the people around him. He came to his
own and his own received him. Not they look like
they were fruit bearers. The people who even led the
people of God looked like they had all of the
fanciful ways of looking like they were fruit bearers. But
really they were his enemies, you know, Jesus said when
he was being crucified, Father, forgive them, for they know
not what they do. Even though, even though, even though
when he saw the lifestyle of the people, think of
the fig tree, he saw the lifestyle of the people
who claimed to be his people, that they were unfruitful.
They were not actually leading people to the kingdom. They
were not actually kind and helpful to those who needed
the lame, the main, the blind, the widows, the orphaned,
a the people who needed God the most. They were
not kind toward them and did not deliver them out
of their sicknesses and infirmities and difficulties. All they wanted
to do was stand up and have people to honor them.
All they wanted was church position. All they wanted was
to overthrow the government of Rome. They had no interest
really in the things of God. They just wanted to
look like they had interest. And so Jesus in the
symbol now he did it in reality, but symbolically now
he's showing his disciples that when people look like when
they talk about it, but they're not really about it,
when people are just looking like they are God's children,
at some point the reality will be manifest And if
we don't repent, if God's people don't repent, if people
around the world don't repent, then they will no longer
have the opportunity. And so the question for me today
is when Jesus comes to cleanse my heart talk about
the cleansing of the temple, When Jesus comes to cleanse
my heart? Am I willing to allow him to? When
he comes in and says, listen, I see that you're
not doing things the way that we agreed that I
said that you should. Will you yield your heart to me?
Or will you be mad and try to kill Jesus
out of your life, kill him out of all of
your experiences, kill him out of all of your relationships,
out of your business dealings. You're going to withhold the
tithe and offering that he said bring into the storehouse.
You're going to withhold from him the opportunity to help
you choose a spouse and show you how to relate
to that individual or will Jesus have to turn over
the tables. Well, you have to expose the reality that
really you just want to talk about it. God is
saying that we can actually have a right relationship with
Him and that he can bless our spiritual tree, he
can bless the temple of our lives and say that
you now are among the people who can be like
a house of prayer for all people. You make the
decision today.
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,