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
February six, 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 hold fast to Love and Justice. Hold
Fast to Love and Justice. We'll get into that in
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Let's go ahead and pray and get underway. Father, we
do thank you for this day. Thank you for your
steadfast love. Thank you for giving us the right and
the will or the right to choose. And I pray
God that you will teach us to make the right
choice today. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again.
Now listen. I know that some people were disturbed by
what I said right as we were closing yesterday. You're like, well, wait,
what did he just say? Yeah, that God allows us
to live for holiness, make the right choices. And he
also and I said, God forbid, he allows us to
live the wrong way too. Yeah, not because he's for that.
For two days we have been driving the fact that
he is always holy, always just always good. But the
fact is that when he Behold stands at the door
and he is consistently incessantly knocking, he is knocking for
us to allow him into our lives. The doorknob is
on the inside of the door, not on the out.
Jesus is not going to break down the door and
come in. He's knocking, and he is giving us the
freedom to will and to do of his good pleasure.
We can do the right thing, and that is his desire.
His singular desire is for every human being to live
according to his principles, and for us to live with
him eternally, for nobody to ever be destroyed or ever
experience the consequences of sin. I hope you are listening clearly.
But since he's a gentleman, since he gives us the
freedom of choice, some people will choose the pathway of
judas a scary out. I'm saying, God forbid, like some
people will choose the pathway of Lucifer, who became the devil,
the enemy of our souls. There are some people who
will do that and not repent. Now, God's love and
justice are always still here, his holiness still here, his
love still here to transform our lives if we will
just yield our will to him. But some people will
choose the pathway of unrighteousness. And God is not going
to force anyone to live holy. That's all I meant
by it. And it's a and it's a it's a
it's a it's a serious matter because now the question
is what am I going to do at the time
that God is entrusted to me? Will I embrace love?
Will I hold fast to love?
Speaker 1: M hmm?
Speaker 2: Will I hold fast to righteousness? Or will I flip flop?
Where I will I have a variableness and shadow of
turning in my life where God does not? But will I?
And so we we have the call of God. That
he is the Lord, your God. He is God, the
faithful God that keeps covenant and mercy for thousands of
generations with those who love him and keep his commandments
like he is good and his steadfast love endurs forever,
and his faithfulness to all generations. And God he can
be trusted. He gives only good gifts to his children.
In fact, he also bestows good things, even on those
who position themselves as enemies. Remember the sun he gives us,
It rises and falls. Even for people who don't love him.
There's water and food and clothing and shelter. Sometimes people
who don't love him also receive happiness in their spirit,
and they don't really know what it is. But still,
but again, God's goal for every human is to live
with Him eternally. And people who don't love him, people
who choose hatred, will not experience eternity with God, will
not experience all that God has even in this life
for them. And so God wants us to hold fast
to judgment, hold fast to love. And so we now
read in the Bible Book of Matthew, chapter five, and
beginning at verse forty three, the Bible reads, he have
heard it, said them of them heard it said, thou
shalt love thy neighbor and hate thine enemy. But I
say unto you, love your enemies, Oh My, bless them
that curse you. Do good to them that hate you.
Pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you. Ye,
that ye may be the children of your father, which
is in heaven. For He maketh the sun to rise
on the evil and on the good. He sendeth rain
to the just and to the unjust. For if ye
love them which love you, what reward have ye? Do not?
Even the publicans the same? Like wicked people can do that.
If ye salute your brethren ownly, what do ye more
than others? Do not even the publicans? So be ye perfect? Oh, oh,
here we go. I love this word. Be ye perfect,
even as your Father in heaven is perfect. Now there's
another place where God says, in the Old Testament the
very same thing. But he says, be perfect, for your
Father in heaven is perfect for four. Therefore you can
be perfect because God is perfect, meaning God can transform
our characters. Yes, we don't have to have the argument
from the eighteen hundreds about perfection. Come on, come on,
it's not inherent. We were not born that way. Clearly,
we were born in sin shapen, in iniquity. That is
the way we were born. However, Jesus said to Nicodemus
one evening, he said, listen, marvel, not that I say
unto you, you must be born again. That which is
born of flesh is flesh, that which is born of
spirit is spirit. Marvel, Not that I say unto you.
You must be born again. Like God can transform our
lives to the degree that when people do evil against us,
we can forgive them. When people say bad words to
you on the road in a road rage incident, you
can choose to stay in your vehicle. You can choose
not to draw your weapon. You can choose not to
cause an accident on the highway Highway seventy five, Highway
Interstate Interstate eighty one, like you can choose on I
ninety five I sixty six. You can choose not to
engage in road rage. Now why because God has made
you perfect. In Isaiah in the Book of Romans, Chapter eight,
God shows us his rescue plan. He said, there was
therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus.
Are you in Christ Jesus? Well, how would I know? Oh,
he says, who walk not according to the flesh, but
according to the spirit. For the law of the Spirit
of life has set you free from the law of
sin and death. You no longer have to be incomplete.
You no longer have to be bound to the law
of sin and death. You can, in fact do what
God says because His spirit lives in you. What the
Law could not do in that it was weakened the flesh.
God did by sending his own son in the likeness
of flesh, and the righteousness of the Law could be
fulfilled in us walk not according to the flesh, but
according to the spirit. You see, if we hold fast
to the love of God, then we can be holy
and just My God.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
Speaker 2: Friends.
Speaker 1: 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,