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. It's
March seventeen, twenty twenty five. 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, God's Love and Justice, and our caption
for today is the two Greatest Sins, the two Greatest Sins.
We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,
we do thank you for giving us the opportunity to
open up your word and to receive the fullness of
your truth. Please help us to listen for your voice
and then do whatever you ask us to do. In
Jesus' name, I pray Amen and a man again the
two great tests sins, and I know already I can
hear some people in Jamaica Land we love where I live, saying,
but sin, a sin, sin is sin, like people believe
that all sin are all sins are of equal magnitude.
Now let me just begin by saying, there is no
sin that we should be playing around with. God is
not pleased with any sin. It's there's no small what
I shouldn't say it that way. There are no sins
that God is just like, oh, that's no big deal
that no every sin would require would require us to
really pay the piper, like when we sin. The Bible
says the sin the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
And so Jesus Christ. Even if there were one sin
that Adam committed and one sin only, then Jesus Christ,
if he's going to save us from our sins, would
have gone through the same process to save us. Okay,
now there is an impact reality. Not all sin are
of equal magnitude. Why, even in our faulty human systems,
there are different kinds of punishments for different kinds of crimes.
If a sixteen year old steals, God forbid, a candy
bar from the supermarket that values about eighty five cents us,
that child is not going to prison for twenty five years.
But some of the heinous acts that we are hearing
in the news these days under indictment, federal indictment for this,
where videos and baby oil and all kinds of other
really creepy stuff is going on, well, of course those
have a much heavier weight. The Bible says it this way,
to whom much is given, much is to be required.
Also that speaks to the reality of our responsibility. And
also he talks about about you know, the penalties a
few stripes versus many stripes, depending on what it is
that an individual is unfortunately guilty of. But Jesus paid
it all. This is the good part. We can recover
from any sin situation. Now, after I've said all of that,
we need to jump into the Bible Book of Psalms.
The Bible Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and thirty five,
beginning at verse thirteen, the Bible reads, thy name, O Lord,
endureth forever and thy memorial, O Lord, throughout all generations.
For the Lord will judge his people, and he will
repent himself concerning his servants. The idols of the Heathen
are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They
have not mouths, but they speak not. They have mouths,
but they speak not. Eyes they have, but they see not.
They have ears, but they hear not. Neither is there
any breath in their mouths. They that make them are
like unto them. So is everyone that trusteth in them.
Bless the Lord, oh House of Israel. Bless the Lord,
oh House of Aaron. And so we see here We
see here that this passage reveals the key points about idolatry.
Here are some of them. The contrast between the living
God and dead idols. And when we say dead, we're
talking not talking about something that lived and then died. No,
this is a fabrication, just like you can. You can
make a battery pack so you can charge your cell phone,
like you can create a watch. You understand. And so
these are things that humans engineered and then worshiped, like
the golden calf in back in the Book of Exodus
number two, the futility of human made objects of worship.
Why would you worship something you create? Why would I
worship something thing that I put together, something that I
have mastered, create, I build something. I build a car
and then worship the car. Does that make sense? That
means that there is no responsibility. That means that there
is no understanding that is greater than my own human understanding.
And we see what mess I make up things as
a human sometimes, and so that is futile. Then there
is the transformation principle. We become like what we worship.
You want to worship your bank account, then that's what
you want? Will bank accounts come and go? That's what humans?
Speaker 1: Do?
Speaker 2: You want to worship an actual statue? Well, statues get destroyed,
they deteriorate. Is that what you desire for yourself? And
I hope your answer is absolutely not. And so there
is a warning that idolators become spiritually lifeless. Just like
their idols. And then finally, finally, the enduring relevant of
God versus the temporary nature of idols. Here today, gone today,
here today, gone tomorrow. A new paradigm comes in and
then we're not worshiping this idol, We're worshiping that idol. Okay.
So yeah, there's some people maybe listening or watching and saying,
come on, Dave, we don't worship idols anymore, give me
a break. Well, a lot of people do. But there
are other kinds of idols that maybe the people thinking
this actually do worship. Sometimes people worship material possessions. This
is why our social media feeds look the way that
they do. Sometimes people are showing off their stuff so
others will start to revere them or somehow hold them
in a higher esteem, or they can feel like they
have been keeping up with the Joneses. You understand. Then
there is status. There is power. Much of the wickedness
that we see in the news is about a power grab.
People are flexing their power muscles and subjugating people through money,
through influence, through what they can do in a particular
industry or field. And if you bow and scuffle or
you do something that is unmentionable. Then they wield power
and hold it over you in order to promise you success.
Then there is self reliance, there is technology, there is
our career, there is pleasure. Like people worship all sorts
of things. But God is saying that we have the
privilege of worshiping Him. We have the privilege of staying
connected with Him in right relationship, so that we don't
need to worship anything else. You see, when the children
of Israel were waiting for Moses to come down from
the top of Horeb or Mount Sinai as some people
would say, he was up there having communion with God.
He's getting as close to God as you can get
as a human being. He's up in the cloud now
God receiving the Ten Commandments. He's receiving the blueprint for
what we now know as the sanctuary or the Sacerdotal system,
the system of sacrifices in the Old Testament, which was
really a way to help us understand how salvation works
through Christ and his people. God's people are at the
base of the mountain, saying, we don't know where Moses is. Aaron,
build us a golden cast so we can worship what
so in the moments sometimes where it seems that God
is not available, do we turn to our things, or
some paradigm or some other idol and worship it. Wow,
that is a great sin and we need to repent.
Make it a great day.
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,