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, the
sixteenth day of August in 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 through the Book
of Exodus, and our caption for today is Covenant at Sinai.
Covenant at Sinai. God is making a covenant with you,
brothers and sisters. He promised that he would write his
laws in our hearts and in our minds, and then
we would be his people. Yeah. Yeah, Before I get
too far into that, I'd like to just say welcome
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ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's
go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,
Thank you, Thank you for making a covenant with us
and through Christ keeping that covenant so we can keep it.
Please help us to actually keep it. In Jesus name,
I pray, Amen and Amen again. God is so good
and you want to say, well, how good is he?
How good is he? I know I'm jumping ahead by
thousands of years, but the truth is that in our day,
the only reason we can covenant with God is because
number one, as God, he is the one that came
our way. We'll talk about that in a second. And
He made the covenant with us, and then through Christ
coming and living as a human being who was faithful
to God. Through Christ as a human being who was
obedient to God, he also kept the covenant on our behalf,
so that by faith we can do the same. You see.
And so not only as God he gave us this covenant,
he comes to us as the superior but again in
the person and work of Jesus Christ, when he lived
as a human being on planet Earth, he was the
covenant keeper as a human being, so that now we
are empowered to do the same thing through the new
birth experience. And then the lesson writer actually says something
very interesting in the form of a question, where did
God lead his people after he had liberated them from Egypt.
I want you to think with me, to the Promised Land?
Where else? However, geographically correct, that answer is theologically wrong.
Well what does that mean? God himself answers it. You
yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt and how
I carried you on eagles wings and brought you where
I want you to read it. It's in Exodus, chapter
nineteen and verse four. And I carried you on eagles
wings and brought you to myself. God's goal was not
to take them to a geographical location. He was not
trying to simply take them to Canaan. Let me just
say that the Canaan that the second generation of freed
slaves and the first generation. Those only two humans that
were faithful in that first generation, fully Joshua and Caleb.
That place is gonna burn one day. I'm just saying.
I'm just saying, the elements will melt with fervent heat,
and then at the appropriate time, the entire earth and
all of the works in it will be burned up.
So that Canaan land that Moses did not get to
go into he was only able to see that will
be burnt up. So the goal wasn't that God would
simply keep the covenant he made with Abraham to take
the people into that land flowing with milk and honey,
and that be the end of the story. What would
be the purpose of all of that? Like you could
have just really literally just picked them up and stuck
them in Canaan. What it would be the purpose of
all of that? It was the spiritual growth that the
people of God had the privilege to experience, Yeah, and
to be transformed in their characters if they would obey
God and surrender to the process. So we're under to
God through the process, I should say. And in that case,
now he is bringing them to himself. Is God bringing
you to himself? Right now? Brothers and sisters, huh? In
those trials that you're going through, as He is delivering
you from that job that you thought you loved, and
then something really weird happened and you're no longer there
is He carrying you by eagles wings to himself. And
the answer, if you're honest when you're going through those
trials and tribulations, if God forbid, you did the wrong
thing and now you're being penalized for it, if you
broke the covenant in your marriage, and you're having to
live under the scrutiny and boundaries that are necessary to
re earn trust, God is bringing you to himself. If
you are in some other situation, that is something you
just can't mention it. You just can't mention it. We
see some of that stuff on the news, and I
wish we didn't hear about the transcripts from those particular
court proceedings. And you're in the same situation. It's unmentionable.
And now you hear God's calling. He's not calling you
to anything except to himself. And that's what we're talking
about today. We're talking about that kind of covenant that
guides human beings into a relationship with God himself. In Exodus,
chapter nineteen and verse four, the Bible reads, ye have
seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I
bear you on eagle's wings and brought you unto myself.
I'm repeating it. God wasn't rescuing them from a place.
He was delivering them to an experience with himself. Remember
remember with Adam and Eve, he was bringing them to himself. Adam,
where are you not? Because he didn't know where Adam was.
But Adam didn't know where he was. I was naked,
I was trembling and hiding. I was ashamed, and I
hid myself. Who told thee that thou wast naked? Adam?
Did you eat from the fruit of the tree that
I commanded that thou shouldest not eat? My wife made
me do it? Eve? What's good? Like what happened Eve?
The devil made me do it. See, the humans needed
to be brought to the self of God like they
needed to be brought to the self of God because
they were protecting themselves as humans with some broken construct,
some faulty covering of the fig leaves. And as God
brought them to himself, he covered them in the righteousness,
the symbol of the righteousness of Christ and actually the
only reason that they continued to live until they repented fully,
and then you know, etc. Et cetera, is because He
brought them to himself. So instead of only asking what
has God set me free from? That's the abstemious part,
that's the going away from part. Ask daily, what is
he calling me to come closer to him?
Speaker 1: For?
Speaker 2: What is he calling me to come closer to him?
In him? What is he calling me? Two? Yeah? Verse five. Now, therefore,
if ye will obey my voice indeed and keep my covenant,
then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above
all the people, for all the earth is mine. Yeah.
Being God's treasure isn't about being favorited like Joseph was
in his family. That didn't work out. That wasn't that
wasn't the goal. That's not the goal of God. But
it's about his faithfulness. Covenant blessings are tied to obedience.
So write down one specific command of God you have
been ignoring, Remember and delayed. Obedience is disobedience that you've
been ignoring. Choos today to obey it out of love
and loyalty. And then finally in verse six, and ye
shall be unto me a kingdom of priests and a
holy nation, ask God where He is calling you to
be a spiritual representative. Is it in your home where
you're not already, Is it in your workplace, Is it
in your community? And then step lively, I said, step
lively into that place. God's purpose in giving the law
to his people was to make them his own peculiar
people and to preserve them as a holy nation. See
the covenant in our hearts makes us a holy people.
Make it a great sabbath.
Speaker 1: Peace. Thanks for joining us listening.
Speaker 2: Friends.
Speaker 1: 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,