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, September two,
twenty twenty four. 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 with Lesson number ten through the Book of Mark,
and our caption for today is not one stone on another,
not one stone on another. Before we get into that,
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continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray,
and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, Thank
you for this day and for getting us thus far
into our work week already. Thank you for new beginnings.
Thank you for giving us a perspective, your perspective, so
that we can be about your business and hasten the
coming of Jesus Christ. I pray that you will fill
us with your spirit and Jesus name, I pray Amen
and amen again, not one stone on another. Now this
is going to have, of course historical relevance, because of
course it was the people of God in Jesus's day
that he was speaking to, and they were getting close
to something that they couldn't be prepared for except that
they were full of the Holy Spirit. You see, he
knew that in thirty some years, and I know it
seemed like some time it would be far off, but
really sometimes these date these days and weeks and months
run off quickly. But he knew that in thirty some
years a crisis would hit his people that they could
only prepare for if they were full of the Holy Ghost.
And he was preparing them now, okay, and so not
one stone on another. Let me ask you a question.
It's a series of questions really, and it's something with
which we all need to contend. Where is your ultimate trust?
Where is your ultimate trust? Is it in religious traditions
or relics? And I think during the COVID nineteen pandemic
we all had to really think that through every single
place in the world, All of God's people around the
world had to think through where is our ultimate trust?
Is it the way that we have done things for generations?
What is our trust really centered in religious institutions, relics, buildings,
our styles of whatever? Is it in relationships? Is it
knowing the signs and the seasons? You know, sometimes when
we do our seminars and our preaching series, we are
so confident in the way that we present the truth
concerning the Last days and things that lead up to
the Last days and the different prophecies. Is our trust
in that or is it in the Holy Spirit? Do
we find our hope in our trust in God? And
then do we rely on the power of the Holy Spirit?
I think the Bible says it's not by might, it's
not by power. It is it's by the Holy Spirit,
the power of the Holy Ghost. And so we read
now with that in our minds. Oh, actually, let me read.
Let me read a quote, and then we will read
from Mark chapter thirteen. The quote is coming in from
the book The Desire of Ages, page six hundred and
twenty seven, and it reads as Christ's attention was attracted
to the magnificence of the temple. Remember this is the
temple that took forty six years to build. They were
not playing when they built this temple. So yes, Christ's
attention was attracted to the magnificence of the temple. What
must have been the unuttered thoughts of that rejected one,
meaning Jesus. The view before him was indeed beautiful, But
he said, with sadness, I see it. All the buildings
are indeed wonderful. You point to these walls as apparently indestructible.
But listen to my words. The day will come when
there shall not be left one stone upon another, what
that shall not be thrown down. Now this is amazing
to the people of God, because sometimes their trust was misaligned.
They trusted in what they could see, They trusted in
their ingenuity, They trusted in the perspective that they had
about God's thoughts rather than God just telling them his
thoughts about a thing, and then they trust God. You see,
so we don't want to get caught up in the well.
This is the way that we've always done it syndrome.
And so from Mark chapter thirteen, beginning at verse one,
the Bible reads, and as he went out of the temple,
one of the disciples set unto him, Master, see what
manner of stones and what buildings are here? Disciples like,
look at this, this is amazing verse two. And Jesus, answering,
said unto him, seest thou these great buildings, there shall
not be left one stone upon the other that shall
not be thrown down? What verse three? And he, as
he sat down in the mount of Olives over against
the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked
him privately, tell us when shall these things be? And
what shall be the sign when all these things shall
be fulfilled? And in fact, it says in the Book
of Matthew and shall be the signs of the end
of the world. Because it's like, if you're saying that
something's going to happen to that right there, then it
must be the end of the world, and so and
so verse five. And Jesus, answering them, began to say,
take heed, lest any man deceive you, or many shall
come in my name, saying I am Christ and shall
deceive many. And when ye shall hear of wars and
rumors of war, Bible says, be not troubled. This is
what Jesus said. You see, sometimes we in twenty twenty
four still trying to apply what Jesus said way back then,
like way back then, before thirty one a D. Like
before thirty one a D. We're trying to apply it,
apply it now. And so when we see certain countries
and nations warring against one another, sometimes we're still trying
to grasp at straws and apply things. And we do
the exact opposite of what Jesus said right here. And
sometimes we apply it in the exact opposite way that
Jesus told us to apply it. But here it goes.
And so when ye shall hear wars and rumors of wars,
he said, be not troubled. So why do we make
all these posts troubling posts like we can't read? Like
Jesus said, don't be troubled, for such things must needs be.
And then we get it mixed up, because then we're like,
these are the last days, and it is we are
living in the last days. We are living in the
last days. But not because not because of this, I
wish I had the time. We are living in the
last days. Jesus will soon come. He will come in
our generation. This is the blessed hope. But the Bible
says here, but the end is not yet. This was
thirty four eighty. He's telling them when they see these things,
the end is not yet. For the nation shall rise
against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There shall be earthquakes
in diverse places, and there shall be famines and troubles.
These be the beginnings of sorrow. So how do we
mix up? When he said these are the beginnings of sorrows,
and we say these are the last of sorrows. This
is what we say. We say, these are the last
of sorrows. But take keat unto yourselves, for they shall
deliver you up to councils and in the synagogues. You
shall be beaten, and ye shall be brought before rulers
and kings. For my sake, for a testimony against them.
So he's going to allow people to parade you around,
just like they had those mock trials after mock trials,
right before Jesus was crucified. Okay. And the Gospel must
first be published among all nations. See this is this
is the major sign of the coming of the Lord,
when the Gospel is published among all nations. But when
they shall lead you and deliver you up. Take no
thought beforehand of what you shall speak. Neither do ye premeditate,
but whatsoever shall be given to you in that hour
that speak, or it is not ye that speak, but
the Holy Ghost. I ask you again, where is your
trust in the signs and seasons or the Holy Ghost?
Speaker 1: Peace? 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,