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, August three,
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 through the Book of Mark, and our caption
for today is inside Out, Inside Out. We'll get into
that in just a moment, but first I like to
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go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
Bothering Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day
and for the privilege that we have to open your word.
And I'm asking you now to give us the fullness
of your holy spirit, make us holy from the inside out.
In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. Okay, so,
especially in twenty twenty four, but this is not the
only time in Earth's history people are more concerned about
the outside than we are the inside. Yes, if you
go to a hotel in twenty twenty four, yeah, yeah,
we ain't no telling how nasty it might be. As
beautiful as it may be. May go in in the
sheets look beautiful, you may go in. And if there
are glass glasses from which to drink, they may look
shine and nice. The surfaces in the bathroom may look wonderful.
And we have seen on all kinds of documentaries and reports,
news reports, where in some of these places, if you
turn on a certain kind of light that can detect impurity,
you see all kinds of creepy stuff. Because sometimes the
cleaning crew are using contaminated items. They may wipe the
toilet with cloth and then use the same cloth to
shine the glass that you're supposed to drink out of,
and so on the outside it looks perfect. And I
could give some more creepy examples, but I think you
get the point. On the outside, it looks wonderful, But
what is it like on the inside. The same thing
with some of our social media tools. If I hold
up my phone using certain apps in front of my face,
I'm going to speak to people as I'm walking along
the road. There are options to put filters on and
so to you, I look exceptional, but in reality I
look like something else. And it's like because sometimes people
are more interested in how we appear than how we
actually are. Now, if we put this into a supernatural
or a spiritual discussion, now we need to be thinking.
But wait a minute, when I look like I'm holy,
because maybe I use holy language? How many times have
I spoken to someone and said, hey, how you doing?
And then they say God is good and listen, no disrespect.
If that's how you respond, then find but that's not
the question that I asked you. I did not ask
you how God is. I know how God is. He's
good and his mercies endure forever like we know this,
and as truth endures to all generations, we know how
God is. What I'm asking you, brother, what I'm asking
you sis is how are you? And sometimes in our
religiosity we are more concerned with how we look than
how we are. I may not go into the rumbar
because I think you might see me, but I may
secretly drink rum behind a bush somewhere because I am
more concerned about what you think of me than I
am about who I really am. And I could make
up more and more examples. But again, I think you
understand where I'm going with this. In Mark chapter seven.
In Mark chapter seven, Jesus actually fires on this reality
when he says, there is nothing that enters a man
from the outside which can defile him. It was a
long discussion we'll get into another day. But the things
which come out of him, those are the things that
defile a man. I remember the Bible says, as a
person thinks, as a man thinketh in his heart, so
is he. As I have my mindset. Whatever my mindset is,
that's my reality. However, I think that is my reality.
What's inside of me is my reality, not the way
that I appear when I get a perfect haircut and trim.
How I appear. My vehicle is shine and nice, and
I have on beautiful clothing. How I appear When I
put deodorant over odor, I said, deodorant over odor without
actually bathing like that is not real. It's a figment
of what I want your imagination of me to be.
And so Jesus is saying, don't be so concerned about
this external stuff unless they are a fruit of the internal.
If internally you are holy, then holiness will come out.
If internally you are dependent upon God, then externally that
dependence will manifest itself. You see. And so Jesus is
concerned about changing us from the inside out. He dealt
with those people who were supposed to be his friends,
but they were really critics of his And that's really
being flattering toward them. He said, you are white washed sepulchers.
On the outside you're bright and shiny and white, but
on the inside you are dead men's bones, full of
dead men's bones. He doesn't want us to live that way.
He wants us to simply surrender to him. I think
I've said enough there. Let's go into the Bible now.
From the Book of Proverbs chapter four, us we prepare
for the coming week. Proverbs chapter fourget at verse twenty three.
The Bible reads, keep your heart with all diligence, for
out of it are the issues of life. Let me
read it in another version, net version, guard your heart
with all vigilance, for from it are the sources of life.
So when God lives in us, he is the one
who is in control of our minds and our mindset.
Then everything that we do is from an overflow of
life that God is inside of us. Okay, let's read
now from Galatians chapter three and verse twenty eight. He
said that there is neither Jew nor Greek. There is
neither bond nor free. There is neither male nor female,
for we are all one in Christ Jesus. It's a
discussion of people who are yielded to God, who are
keeping covenant with God. And he said, when we are
baptized into Christ, we are Abraham's seed and heirs according
to the promise. So the promise God made to Abraham
is what he is promising to us. When he has
his laws written in our hearts. Oh inside again, yes,
and in our minds. Oh that's internal again yes. And
then we live in such a way that we are
unified in Christ. All of us, everybody who yields our
will to Christ, are now bound together to do the
will of God on planet Earth. And so I read
also from Matthew chapter sixteen. Matthew chapter sixteen and verse six,
Jesus said, unto them, watch out, watch out, and beware
of the leaven or the yeast of the Pharisees and
the Sadducees. He was saying, like, do what they tell you.
There are times that they would teach holy words, but
don't do what they do, because they're showing you that
really they're about talk and not action. He said, do
what they teach you, but don't do what they do.
And of course he wasn't saying absolutely, because some of
the stuff they taught wasn't true. But he's showing us
that there are times that we will again behave on
the outside in a way that is really life like.
If you listen to the four friends of job, we
say three friends, but there was one dude at the
end that criticized the first three friends. And we listened
to what they said to him as he was going
through struggles, and it seemed like what they were saying
was really good. Like if you just listen to the
words that they spoke, it was like, whoa, this is poetic,
this is holy stuff. But when you realize that they
were giving him bad advice and they were just pompous
and religious, and Jesus actually told them, you need to
go repent and let this dude offer sacrifice for you
because you were on the wrong track. Yeah, we need
to be allowing God to change us from the inside
out and then the outbo.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening to 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,