Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, with 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. It's
eight Pol nine, 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 how to study Bible Prophecy,
and our caption for today is dealing with Death. Dealing
with Death. We'll get into that in just moment, but
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faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then
we will get under way. Father and Heaven, thank you
for giving us this day and the privilege of being
called by your name. Thank you for giving us the
antidote against death. Help us to live for you in
Jesus name. I pray, Amen and Amen again. Dealing with death,
I need you to type a one in the chat
if you are tired of death. I don't hate a
lot of things, but death is one of the things
I actually hate. I do not hate a lot of things,
but death is one of the things that I hate.
There are so many people that I love who passed away.
I lost my mother in twenty twenty to an accident
against a tractor trailer. I won't say anything more because
it's so graphic. I hate death. And let me just
tell you a story before we get into the Bible text. Okay,
So I have a friend who I was praying for
and my brother. My friend Norman was also with me.
Many times we would pray for my brother and friend
Norman didn't even know him. But I just thank God
for brothers who are are faithful to the call when
we have these kinds of challenges. And so my friend
was suffering with cancer, and long story short, he succumbed.
He succumbed. I was in the hospital with him and
his family members when he actually breathed his life last breath.
My friend okay. And I had decided ahead of the
time that I would not accept no for an answer.
I would not accept death just because my friend died,
like I anticipated that he might die. And I said, no,
I'm not going to accept that as the answer. Okay,
I'm going to go back to God. And so when
my friend did breathe his last breath, they did pronounce him.
They did put the sheet over him up to just
about below his chin. I called my friend Norman on
the phone, a video call. I said, Norman, my brother
has died. My friend has died. Remember what we said.
So I knelt down beside the bed of my dead friend,
my deceased friend's body, and I reached out my right
hand and in my left hand I have the cell
phone and it's a video call. So so Norman is
with me. In my right hand is on splayed my fingers,
splayed my hand on the chest of my brother who
just my friend who just died. And I began to pray.
Norman is there with me. We're praying, and I was
anticipating a pulse in his chest. I was anticipating movement
in my right hand. I have the phone in my left.
I'm praying, Norman is praying, and I am anticipating movement
in my friend's chest. And well, that did not happen.
It didn't happen. I didn't pray for hours. I didn't
cry and moan and pray for hours and ask God
why or why not? Because I believe God hears us
when we pray. And I asked, God, would you please
wake up my brother today, would you wake up my
friend today, Please restore him like you've restored so many
people in the past. And well, my hand did not move,
my friend's chest did not rise, he did not wake up.
Was it my faith? Absolutely not. My faith in God
was strong, I promise you, my brother Norman's faith strong
in the Lord. But God said no. So it was
in that moment that I accepted God's answer for the
second time. See I'm tired of death. But God knows
best while we struggle with death, because he has the plan,
the action plan. He is going to destroy death. And
when we look in the Bible Book of Genesis, chapter two,
we see that God gave his people in verses fifteen
through seventeen, he gave his people a way to avoid
this thing, like for it never to enter into the
earthly realm. And the Lord God took the man and
put him into the garden of Eden to dress it
and to keep it. And the Lord commanded the man, saying,
of the tree of the garden, of every tree of
the garden, thou mayst freely eat of the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat
of it, Or in the day that thou eatest thereof
thou shalt surely die. Let me just say that Adam
did eat of the tree. I know Eve did too.
But God made Adam responsible for the human race. And
when Adam sinned, when Adam ate from that tree, death
devolved upon human beings. You see, death is not natural.
Death is a consequence of sin. Death is not God's plan,
And death came from disobedience. And then we see it
playing out in the life of or the family of Adam.
Adam and Eve, in their children. The Bible teaches us
in Genesis chapter four, verses eight through fifteen, that Cain,
one of Adam and Eve's sons, killed or murdered Abel,
another one of their sons, and the Bible says that
when God checked Cain, he said, your brother's blood is
crying unto me from the earth. You have killed. You
have murdered your brother. You have murdered your brother. And
so we see the first occurrence of death on planet Earth.
I'm talking about death of a human being on planet
Earth at the hands of the Adam and Eve, the
first people God ever created, at their children's hands or
child's hands. Yeah, and so death is violent. God is concerned.
Sin progresses. We go from eating from the fruit that
God said don't eat, and then we have murder. And
then of course life is sacred. Life is sacred. Number three,
there is a problem with death. The Bible says that
in First Corinthians, chapter fifteen, verse seventeen, and if Christ
be not raised, your faith is vain. You are yet
in your sins. If in this life only we have
hope in Christ, we are above all men most miserable.
And so the Bible writer is saying, as there is
an argument among people who say that they love God
about whether there is or is not a resurrection, the
bottom line is that when Jesus died, he died in
our place so that we could be saved. But if
Jesus remained dead, then my brother, my friend, whom I
beg God to wake up that day that Sunday at
Andrew's Memorial Hospital here in Jamaica, land we love, months ago,
he will stay dead and never wake up again. He
won't experience immortality, he won't experience the new body that
God promised to those who love him. But if Christ
be raised, which he is a Christ, the Lord has
risen today, hallelujah. This is what the songwriter penned, and
it's true. Since that is the case. My mother, she
had faith in God. She will be raised incorruptible. My
friend had faith in God. He will be raised incorruptible.
We in this day and age can have victory over
every beast setting sin, because Christ indeed took up his
life as he said that he would, and so he
gives us victory over sin. He gives us victory over death,
and one day, one day we will experience and turn.
Speaker 1: It to days 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.