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 Wednesday, January one,
twenty twenty five. 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, God's Love and Justice. Happy New Year. By
the way, it's going to take me a few days
to get used to the new year. Like the date,
I will mix it up and mix it up again.
Likely I'm gonna do my best not to. But if
I say twenty twenty four or some other year, like
don't type in the chat, like don't send me a message,
I understand, like it happens to me. Think about it.
Every day I announce the date, and it's not only
on your Daily Portion, it's somewhere else too, and sometimes
it kind of gets locked in, like the year from before,
it gets locked in. Okay, so yeah, I'll be okay.
But it's January one, Happy new year to you, and
our caption for today is many are called, but few
are chosen. This is right out of Jesus's mouth. Many
are called, but few are chosen. We'll get into that
in just a moment, but first I'd like to say
welcome to you and ask you to go over to
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Make sure you get your Daily Portion Life Application companion
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This is the way that we continue to build faith
and fellowship. Father, we do thank you for this day,
for this new year. I know it's an artificial measure
as we are humans down here, but to many. It
represents a new beginning. So please teach us to number
our days and to be grateful for this moment of
this day, and to live in a holy way, live
connected to you and doing your will in Jesus name.
I pray, Amen and Amen again. Many are called, but
few are chosen. And what I want you to focus
on today in the Your Daily Portion Companion Guide, pages
sixteen and seventeen, whichever one you choose. But the one
that's on my mind is relationship application. I'll circle back
if I do have the time, Okay, And so I
just want to say that relationship with God. Relationship with
God is not an exclusive club. I'd like to say
it again. I know that we have set up because
God showed us the blueprint. We have set up our
worship centers, our churches, etc. The concept of congregating for
the purpose of worship, right and praise and thanksgiving, etc.
Right edifying the people of God with the truths of
God in all key areas of our lives. This is
the ideal at least right, but some people have mistreated
it and politicized the space, the experience, the pavilion, the sanctuary,
the place where God is meeting with his people in
a special way when we come together like two or
three gather together in his name style, and he is
in the midst like That's what I'm talking about. Some
people have turned it away from being a house of
prayer for all people into an exclusive clique or a club,
some kind of country club, like some kind of spiritual
country club, and only the certain kinds of people, the elite,
or those who bow in a certain way and scuffle
and do what some people who have bad mind and
disrespectful thoughts will command them to do. But God said
you for the people who are are like that have
turned my father's house into a dent of fees. And
eventually he said, let your house has left them to
unto you desolate. So we don't treat the House of
God as an exclusive club. It is. It is a
house of prayer for all people. So if we quote
choose God by his grace he gives us the strength
and grace to do so, then He has chosen us.
When you have an opportunity, I want you to read
from Matthew chapter twenty two, verses one through fourteen, so
you can get the context of what I'm saying. Okay,
and so I'm going to summarize. I'm going to summarize
the passage. It's one of my favorite places in scripture.
I know, I repeat that. I say that about a
lot of places in scripture, but yeah, it is what
it is, right and from the lesson writer of his
own free will. God not only loves people of his
own free will, but he also invites them to love
him and return. We said that yesterday, okay. And so
in this parable in Matthew chapter twenty two, there are
two applications. I'm going to focus on the second one, right.
The second one has to do with judgment. It has
to do with God welcoming us into a relationship with him.
And when we have the righteousness of Christ, he is
celebrating because he is looking for people to be saved.
He is welcoming us into relationship with him. And so
the invitation goes out to the people. And I know
there is another application that's about the Gospel call, and
then the call goes out to people that were considered gentiles.
And so that is historically and it's right in every way.
But I'm focusing now on when God invites you into
relationship and then he is proverbially. Now he's celebrating the
connection that you are to have I am to have
with his son. And then he discovers that some people
said yes to him when others rejected him and said,
now I don't want this relationship. So he's not even
looking at them at that moment. Ah, But these people
who said yes to God, yes to a relationship with him,
some people turn back. Some people decide that, you know what,
I'm not interested in this relationship with God anymore. I
know that you are giving, You're loving, your kind, you
provide the garment of salvation. You have given me everything
so I can be supported in my relationship with you.
You've made the invitation I have accepted, But God forbid
now needlessly. Some people, having accepted God into their lives,
reject him and say, you know what, I don't need
this righteousness. And Paul talked about it. He was like, listen,
how is it that you have chosen to accept God
by faith, but then try to continue a relationship with
him through your own works. Many are called, but few
are chosen. And so now the King is seen as
going around in this place where he made all provisions,
all of the sacrifices necessary, everything that is related to
the righteousness. Now we're just applying it very quickly of
the people who are now present in this relationship experience
with God and the folks. The person of honor is
Jesus Christ, and we're celebrating. And then he sees somebody
that is not properly attired with the righteousness that he provided,
and he's like, but hold on, friend, how camest thou
in hither not having on the garment, the garment of
righteousness the when you accept it? Otherwise you wouldn't have
been here in the first place. How is it that
you have now taken this off?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Why are you now in the flesh? When I brought
you in here in the holy ghost? Like, how is
it that you were covered in the righteousness of Christ
and now you're in the flesh? And the Bible says
that the man was speechless. He was speechless then, and
then the command from the from the king says, bind
him hand and foot and take him out. And of
course he's destroyed because he's trying to have he's trying
to recommend himself like king, like he's trying to recommend
himself for the Kingdom, but he is clad in his
own righteousness, instead of being covered in the righteousness that
God so freely givens. Many are given, many are called like.
Everybody is called into this both bad and good like
people are called into this experience. But the Bible says
that if we God forbid, take off his righteousness. If
God forbid, we reject him. The Bible says, many are called,
but the few are chosen. See. The chosen are people
who simply continue to accept the righteousness of Christ and
submit our will to him, Come what may. Many are called,
but few are chosen. Are you chosen?
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,