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
May nineteen, 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 on Mount Zion on Mount Zion.
Before we get into that, I'd like to just say
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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,
we do thank you this morning for giving us the
opportunity to pray and to open up your word and
to see ourselves in your presence. Help us to live
now in the mindset of your presence until Jesus comes.
In Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again on
Mount Zion. So our goal today is to discover who
will dwell with God in Mount Zion. I want you
to see Mount Zion as the presence of God. No
matter what we say historically, no matter what we say
geographically or even archaeologically like what can be found on
the ancient Mount Zion. The real goal is to know
who will dwell with God in his presence. And then
the big one that Christian people often miss is how
we're very good with what we're good with describing things,
identifying problems, giving like really cool generic responses that seem intricate.
But the truth is we need to know how how
will we dwell whoever that we are in Mount Zion
with God or in His presence throughout the ceaseless ages
of eternity and the lesson writer. In the bottom of
the first part of the lesson, it says, we can
come to no conclusion other than it is the Lamb
who enables us to stand on Mount Zion. So we
have a generic answer. That's the reality. The Lamb is
not mentioned in david Psalm, but he suddenly appears in
the description found in Revelation chapter fourteen. It is almost
as if Revelation fourteen is answering David's question. What question,
the same one that I just posed to you. I'm
David two, by the way, right, Yeah, who will stand
in Mount Zion? Okay? So what we're going to do
is go to the question in Psalm's chapter fifteen. The
Book of Psalms chapter fifteen and verse one, and the
Bible reads, Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? Who
shall dwell in thy Holy hill? And in Psalm chapter
twenty four and verse three, it says who shall ascend
into the hill of the Lord, or who shall stand
in his Holy place? So these are the same questions
Revelation chapter fourteen actually answers from a lamb Day's perspective,
And so let's go with number one in chapter fifteen
and twenty four in the Book of Psalms. The Bible
actually teaches us those who dwell with God fifteen verses
two through five, those who walk uprightly? Do you walk
up rightly? That means that you don't bow to the
pressure of the enemy when he tempts you to do
all kinds of things, to think in ways that are
opposite of what God has taught those who walk righteously.
That's about holiness, and the standard of holiness is the
Ten Commandments law by God's grace? Do you do what
God says? By God's grace? Do you avoid the things
that God wants you to steer clear of? Think about it.
Eve was given the opportunity to what either eat from
the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which
God forbade, or listen to God because he said, in
the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die. Well,
Eve choll to eat and began the death problem. Yep,
and guess what some people are out there thinking. But
Dave you left out Adam. No, Adam is the reason
why we're in this mess. Because he jumped into sin.
Eve fell into sin, Adam jumped into sin. Both of
them ate what God said, don't eat, because they separated
themselves from God and believe the enemy instead of God.
Now Eve was deceived, Adam was not. But does it
really matter? Does it really matter? Fall into sin? Jump
into sin? Both of them sinned and fell short of
the glory of God. And so now we know that
we have to walk in righteousness. We have to speak
the truth in our hearts. That's our privilege. We don't
slander or harm or exploit others. You want to be
in the presence of God forever honors the faithful and
keeps our promises. In Chapter twenty four, verses four and five,
God describes who stands in the holy place clean hands
and a pure heart, has not lifted up their soul
unto vanity, talking about the lifestyle that we live on
a daily basis, does not swear deceitfully, receives blessing and
righteousness from God in salvation. On and on and on
we go. And in Revelation fourteen, the same question is answered,
These are they which are not defiled Verses four and five.
They follow the lamb in their mouth, is no guile.
They are without fault before God, blameless, lives, truthful, speech,
pure heart and clean walk, loyalty and obedience, and now
you're like, Okay, Dave, listen, I believe the Bible. I
agree with what God said. But how but how like
that sounds really wonderful when you play the organ after it?
It sounds wonderful if you make up a rhythmic way
of describing how or who excuse me, the people are,
and everybody gets excited until now a temptation comes. Yes,
when I'm at work and somebody says something sideways out
of their mouth to me, huh, When I'm at church
and there is a committee and we are not on
the same page, and she always gets what she desires,
but I never get what I desire. It looks like
there's some favoritism going on here, yep, in those moments
when our children seem to have lost their minds, our
spouses seem to have lost their minds and their love
for us. It seems like when I call my friends,
they never answer, and I'm always the one who is
going after them, and they don't really care about me. Yeah,
when those things come up, like the question really is
how we know what the what and we know what
the who are? But how but how. The Bible says
in chapter five of Psalms chapter twenty four, he shall
receive the blessing of the Lord and righteousness from the
God of his salvation. So God is giving us all
all that we need as a gift, a gift to
be able to live in His presence. But let me
show the how, the how. Number One, surrender. That's a
big word. Submit, submit, submission. There are entire there's an
entire system of belief from Ishmael's descendants that is based
on submission, and that's something we can also learn. We
need to submit in this case to Christ daily, the
Bible says in fourteen verse four. In fourteen and verse four,
follow the lamb wherever he goes. So here is the
step that we need to take. Pray every morning. Lord,
take my will and make it yours today. Let go
of control, trust him to lead you in your decisions
and desires. Number two, Let his character transform you. The
Bible says in verse four of Psalm chapter twenty four
that we have clean hands in a pure heart. Ask
does this thought, word, or action reflect God's name that's
written in the forehead of people who are His children?
Let his character transform me and finally, practice truth and
integrity in every area. Verse five, verse fourteen. In their
mouth has found no guile, So speak truthfully, keep their word,
and treat people fairly. And get this even in private
behind their backs, treat people fairly. So God has given
us the privilege of being in His holy hill that
we need to surrender our will.
Speaker 1: Jace 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,