1 00:00:01,159 --> 00:00:03,640 Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, with some of us 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:07,200 too much, because yesterday's food is not enough to supply 3 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:11,080 energy for today's needs. Why then, do some of us 4 00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:14,960 expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God 5 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:18,800 to keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we 6 00:00:18,839 --> 00:00:22,440 are going to change all of that. Let's experience God's 7 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:26,280 words today and receive the power we need to live healthy. 8 00:00:26,239 --> 00:00:27,399 Speaker 2: Vibrant lives. 9 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:31,839 Speaker 1: Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker, 10 00:00:32,039 --> 00:00:33,039 Elle David Harris. 11 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:36,200 Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning, it is Wednesday. It's 12 00:00:36,240 --> 00:00:39,920 eight Pol nine, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is 13 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:42,320 Elle David Harris. I am your host, and this is 14 00:00:42,439 --> 00:00:45,439 your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every 15 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:48,880 single day, and today is no exception. We are continuing 16 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:53,200 in our lesson study series how to study Bible Prophecy, 17 00:00:53,399 --> 00:00:57,320 and our caption for today is dealing with Death. Dealing 18 00:00:57,640 --> 00:01:00,479 with Death. We'll get into that in just moment, but 19 00:01:00,479 --> 00:01:02,159 first I'd like to say welcome to you and ask 20 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:04,640 you to go over to your Daily Portion dot com. 21 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:08,760 Please join our online community. 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Dealing with death, 34 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:49,599 I need you to type a one in the chat 35 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:52,760 if you are tired of death. I don't hate a 36 00:01:52,799 --> 00:01:55,920 lot of things, but death is one of the things 37 00:01:55,959 --> 00:01:59,200 I actually hate. I do not hate a lot of things, 38 00:01:59,239 --> 00:02:02,000 but death is one of the things that I hate. 39 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:05,879 There are so many people that I love who passed away. 40 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:10,400 I lost my mother in twenty twenty to an accident 41 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:15,319 against a tractor trailer. I won't say anything more because 42 00:02:15,319 --> 00:02:18,680 it's so graphic. I hate death. And let me just 43 00:02:18,719 --> 00:02:21,919 tell you a story before we get into the Bible text. Okay, 44 00:02:22,240 --> 00:02:26,479 So I have a friend who I was praying for 45 00:02:27,039 --> 00:02:30,639 and my brother. My friend Norman was also with me. 46 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:34,680 Many times we would pray for my brother and friend 47 00:02:34,759 --> 00:02:37,319 Norman didn't even know him. But I just thank God 48 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:42,000 for brothers who are are faithful to the call when 49 00:02:42,199 --> 00:02:45,360 we have these kinds of challenges. And so my friend 50 00:02:45,879 --> 00:02:52,080 was suffering with cancer, and long story short, he succumbed. 51 00:02:52,439 --> 00:02:55,800 He succumbed. I was in the hospital with him and 52 00:02:56,240 --> 00:03:00,759 his family members when he actually breathed his life last breath. 53 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:04,360 My friend okay. And I had decided ahead of the 54 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:08,199 time that I would not accept no for an answer. 55 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:12,639 I would not accept death just because my friend died, 56 00:03:12,680 --> 00:03:16,000 like I anticipated that he might die. And I said, no, 57 00:03:16,159 --> 00:03:20,120 I'm not going to accept that as the answer. Okay, 58 00:03:20,159 --> 00:03:22,159 I'm going to go back to God. And so when 59 00:03:22,199 --> 00:03:26,439 my friend did breathe his last breath, they did pronounce him. 60 00:03:26,479 --> 00:03:30,159 They did put the sheet over him up to just 61 00:03:30,240 --> 00:03:34,800 about below his chin. I called my friend Norman on 62 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:38,159 the phone, a video call. I said, Norman, my brother 63 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:41,800 has died. My friend has died. Remember what we said. 64 00:03:42,680 --> 00:03:48,400 So I knelt down beside the bed of my dead friend, 65 00:03:48,479 --> 00:03:52,599 my deceased friend's body, and I reached out my right 66 00:03:52,639 --> 00:03:54,879 hand and in my left hand I have the cell 67 00:03:54,919 --> 00:03:58,479 phone and it's a video call. So so Norman is 68 00:03:58,520 --> 00:04:02,719 with me. In my right hand is on splayed my fingers, 69 00:04:02,719 --> 00:04:06,280 splayed my hand on the chest of my brother who 70 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:09,639 just my friend who just died. And I began to pray. 71 00:04:10,039 --> 00:04:13,360 Norman is there with me. We're praying, and I was 72 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:19,920 anticipating a pulse in his chest. I was anticipating movement 73 00:04:20,079 --> 00:04:22,800 in my right hand. I have the phone in my left. 74 00:04:22,839 --> 00:04:28,800 I'm praying, Norman is praying, and I am anticipating movement 75 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:34,959 in my friend's chest. And well, that did not happen. 76 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:40,720 It didn't happen. I didn't pray for hours. I didn't 77 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:45,600 cry and moan and pray for hours and ask God 78 00:04:45,639 --> 00:04:49,480 why or why not? Because I believe God hears us 79 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:52,439 when we pray. And I asked, God, would you please 80 00:04:52,639 --> 00:04:55,680 wake up my brother today, would you wake up my 81 00:04:55,839 --> 00:05:01,560 friend today, Please restore him like you've restored so many 82 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:06,399 people in the past. And well, my hand did not move, 83 00:05:07,399 --> 00:05:10,680 my friend's chest did not rise, he did not wake up. 84 00:05:11,480 --> 00:05:14,759 Was it my faith? Absolutely not. My faith in God 85 00:05:14,879 --> 00:05:19,600 was strong, I promise you, my brother Norman's faith strong 86 00:05:19,839 --> 00:05:22,959 in the Lord. But God said no. So it was 87 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:27,439 in that moment that I accepted God's answer for the 88 00:05:27,480 --> 00:05:31,800 second time. See I'm tired of death. But God knows 89 00:05:31,959 --> 00:05:36,439 best while we struggle with death, because he has the plan, 90 00:05:36,519 --> 00:05:40,680 the action plan. He is going to destroy death. And 91 00:05:40,720 --> 00:05:43,839 when we look in the Bible Book of Genesis, chapter two, 92 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:48,240 we see that God gave his people in verses fifteen 93 00:05:48,279 --> 00:05:51,920 through seventeen, he gave his people a way to avoid 94 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:56,120 this thing, like for it never to enter into the 95 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:59,399 earthly realm. And the Lord God took the man and 96 00:05:59,439 --> 00:06:01,920 put him into the garden of Eden to dress it 97 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:05,920 and to keep it. And the Lord commanded the man, saying, 98 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:10,639 of the tree of the garden, of every tree of 99 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:13,800 the garden, thou mayst freely eat of the tree of 100 00:06:13,839 --> 00:06:16,120 the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat 101 00:06:16,120 --> 00:06:19,360 of it, Or in the day that thou eatest thereof 102 00:06:19,480 --> 00:06:23,240 thou shalt surely die. Let me just say that Adam 103 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:26,160 did eat of the tree. I know Eve did too. 104 00:06:26,199 --> 00:06:30,040 But God made Adam responsible for the human race. And 105 00:06:30,079 --> 00:06:34,439 when Adam sinned, when Adam ate from that tree, death 106 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:38,720 devolved upon human beings. You see, death is not natural. 107 00:06:39,079 --> 00:06:43,079 Death is a consequence of sin. Death is not God's plan, 108 00:06:43,480 --> 00:06:48,399 And death came from disobedience. And then we see it 109 00:06:48,439 --> 00:06:55,319 playing out in the life of or the family of Adam. 110 00:06:55,639 --> 00:06:59,680 Adam and Eve, in their children. The Bible teaches us 111 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:03,920 in Genesis chapter four, verses eight through fifteen, that Cain, 112 00:07:04,439 --> 00:07:08,959 one of Adam and Eve's sons, killed or murdered Abel, 113 00:07:09,399 --> 00:07:13,040 another one of their sons, and the Bible says that 114 00:07:13,079 --> 00:07:17,079 when God checked Cain, he said, your brother's blood is 115 00:07:17,240 --> 00:07:21,199 crying unto me from the earth. You have killed. You 116 00:07:21,279 --> 00:07:24,720 have murdered your brother. You have murdered your brother. And 117 00:07:24,759 --> 00:07:28,000 so we see the first occurrence of death on planet Earth. 118 00:07:28,199 --> 00:07:31,079 I'm talking about death of a human being on planet 119 00:07:31,120 --> 00:07:35,639 Earth at the hands of the Adam and Eve, the 120 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:40,600 first people God ever created, at their children's hands or 121 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:49,399 child's hands. Yeah, and so death is violent. God is concerned. 122 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:54,600 Sin progresses. We go from eating from the fruit that 123 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:58,439 God said don't eat, and then we have murder. And 124 00:07:58,480 --> 00:08:03,040 then of course life is sacred. Life is sacred. Number three, 125 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:07,600 there is a problem with death. The Bible says that 126 00:08:08,639 --> 00:08:12,040 in First Corinthians, chapter fifteen, verse seventeen, and if Christ 127 00:08:12,079 --> 00:08:15,199 be not raised, your faith is vain. You are yet 128 00:08:15,240 --> 00:08:18,000 in your sins. If in this life only we have 129 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:22,160 hope in Christ, we are above all men most miserable. 130 00:08:22,199 --> 00:08:24,759 And so the Bible writer is saying, as there is 131 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:29,360 an argument among people who say that they love God 132 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:32,279 about whether there is or is not a resurrection, the 133 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:36,679 bottom line is that when Jesus died, he died in 134 00:08:36,759 --> 00:08:39,879 our place so that we could be saved. But if 135 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:44,759 Jesus remained dead, then my brother, my friend, whom I 136 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:47,919 beg God to wake up that day that Sunday at 137 00:08:47,960 --> 00:08:52,559 Andrew's Memorial Hospital here in Jamaica, land we love, months ago, 138 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:58,480 he will stay dead and never wake up again. He 139 00:08:58,519 --> 00:09:03,399 won't experience immortality, he won't experience the new body that 140 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:06,279 God promised to those who love him. But if Christ 141 00:09:06,320 --> 00:09:09,320 be raised, which he is a Christ, the Lord has 142 00:09:09,399 --> 00:09:13,600 risen today, hallelujah. This is what the songwriter penned, and 143 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:17,159 it's true. Since that is the case. My mother, she 144 00:09:17,279 --> 00:09:21,279 had faith in God. She will be raised incorruptible. My 145 00:09:21,639 --> 00:09:26,480 friend had faith in God. He will be raised incorruptible. 146 00:09:26,879 --> 00:09:30,320 We in this day and age can have victory over 147 00:09:30,440 --> 00:09:34,240 every beast setting sin, because Christ indeed took up his 148 00:09:34,399 --> 00:09:37,320 life as he said that he would, and so he 149 00:09:37,399 --> 00:09:41,080 gives us victory over sin. He gives us victory over death, 150 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:44,679 and one day, one day we will experience and turn. 151 00:09:44,559 --> 00:09:47,799 Speaker 1: It to days for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember 152 00:09:48,039 --> 00:09:51,120 we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word 153 00:09:51,159 --> 00:09:54,080 that comes from the mouth of God. This has been 154 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:57,440 your daily portion with El David Harris. Make it a 155 00:09:57,480 --> 00:10:00,120 great day.