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 Thursday. It's
April twenty four, 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 how to study Bible Prophecy,
and our caption for today is a Light to the Gentiles.
I like it a light to the gentiles. We'll get
into that in just a moment, but first I'd like
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go ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father,
we do thank you this morning for the blessing that
you have been to us, so we can be a
blessing to others. Please help us to do that, Help
us to be that be a blessing to others, and
that people will be transformed by your spirit. In Jesus name,
I pray, Amen and amen again. Okay, a light to
the gentiles. This is something that the people of God
customarily got mixed up from the Old Testament era straight
into the New Testament era. You see, the Bible says
that God chose his people. He chose his people not
because they were greater in number, not because they were
more special in the sense of like they are a
superhuman some kind of way, and the others are just human. No.
But God chose his people because of his great love,
and he intended for his people to be a light
to the world, to reflect his image, to reflect the
light of Christ. That is the goal, that is the purpose.
Of God calling his people. Of course, I'm leaving some
things out, but he wanted to show that in if
he could transform his people who are now closest to him,
who are now what we would call repositories of light,
like we hold the oracles of God, then we could
share with other people so they could see that. Oh
wait a minute. If I was fill in the blank
kind of sinner or I am, and these people were,
then that means that God can transform me too. See,
that's the goal. Let your light so shine before men,
so that when they see your good works, they will
glorify your father, which is in heaven. You see. Not
that you can create an exclusive club or clique. Not
for you to be able to lord power over somebody
and say that I am better than you. And once
you get to my stature, then you'll be qualified as
a person of God.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: And in Isaiah chapter fifty six, the Bible gives us
actually a great standard. Thus set the Lord, beginning at
verse one, keep ye judgment and do justice, for my
salvation is near to come, and my righteousness to be revealed.
Blessed is the person that doeth this, and the son
of man that layeth hold on it, that keepeth the
sabbath from polluting it. Of course, there's the standard. The
sabbath is a sog between God and his people, and
that he is the one that sanctifies us. He is
demonstrating that he is able to set us aside for
a holy use and keepeth his hand from doing evil.
Neither let the son of the stranger. So let's call
those gentiles people who are not the people of God
as yet, or who are learning to become the people
of God. I'm oversimplifying here, that have joined himself to
the Lord speak saying the Lord hath utterly separated me
from his people. Wait a minute, no, no, don't say that.
Neither let the eunuchs say, behold, I am a dry tree.
That was another set of people for a reason, they
were ceremonially unclean. I just don't have the time to
drill that here. But understand same category. For thus set
the Lord unto the eunuchs, that keep my sabbath. So
people who would normally be seen as unclean, people who
would have normally been seen as separated from God's people.
If you are keeping the Sabbath, and you choose the
things that please me and take hold of my covenant.
Now we're starting to see what qualifies a person to
become a person or a child of God in humility,
take hold of my covenant. Even unto them, will I
give in mine house and within my walls. Jesus is
welcoming everybody who surrenders our will to him. He's welcoming
everybody who keeps covenant with him, who are keeping his
Sabbath as a sign that he is the one that
sanctifies us. Even unto them, will I give in mine
house and within my walls a place and a name
that is better than of sons and of daughters. It
is a name that will not be cut off, that
will remain forever. And so God's people, we're supposed to
be welcoming people, God's people to in twenty twenty five,
are to be welcoming other people into the fellowship of God,
to be surrendered to his will. And so the lesson
writer begins in the Bible Book of Numbers, chapter fourteen,
beginning at verse seventeen, and it reads, and now I
beseech thee let the power of my Lord be great,
according as thou hast spoken, saying, the Lord is long suffering.
Yes he is, and of great mercy. Has He been
merciful to you, brothers and sisters when you go to work?
Is he merciful to you if God forbid you make
a mistake? Huh? Has He been merciful to you when
you in your home and your household relationships, and you're
with your children, with your spouses, with your parents, when
you have done something that is not right and you
had to go back and say, please forgive me. Has
He been merciful to you forgiving iniquity and transgression visiting
the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the
third and fourth generations. Pardon, and I beseech thee the
iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of thy mercy.
And the Lord said, I have pardoned according to thy word.
But as truly as I live, all the earth shall
be filled with the glory of God. That is the
goal of God's people to be among the people who
are reflecting the glory, the brightness of God in his character,
the brightness of God's love, the brightness of God as
he teaches the truth in love, so that others who
are not yet the children of God can become so two.
In Isaiah chapter fourty two and verse six, the Bible reads,
I the Lord have called THEE God's people. I added
that word in righteousness, and give THEE for a covenant
of people, for the light of the gentiles. And so
we see that Jesus Christ is the light of the gentiles.
We see that Jesus Christ in his people. The hope
of glory is to be a light to every one
that we come into contact with. Are you going to
the gym this morning to exercise? There are people who
don't know God today. They may say his name sometimes,
but they don't really know him. They have not surrendered
their will to him. He wants you to be a
light to those people. Ah, are you going to work?
Are you going to be in public transportation? Will you
be in traffic where there might be a road rage incident?
And God is saying to you, I want you to
be a light in that situation, so that when they
see you, and how you react in that situation or
proact if the as the case may be, He wants you.
He wants me to be a representative of Him. Okay,
be a light wherever we go. And in Isaiah chapter
sixty and verse three, the Bible says, and the gentiles
shall come to thy light, people of God. Hah, I said,
people of God. The gentile shall come to thy light
and kings to the brightness of Thy rising. So when
we represent God aright, then God will draw people to us,
so we can draw them to Christ. And of course,
in Revelation chapter eighteen, verses one through four, the Bible
teaches that we who have unfortunately aligned ourselves with confusion
with Babylon, with the false worship systems, that we are
to come out and be separate. We are to come
out of her and not partake of her sins. Why
because Christ is the light to us people. God's people
are a light to the world, and God is drawing
all people to himself, starting with us. Peace.
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,