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 Sunday, February sixteen,
twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El David Harris.
I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
where we give you Gud'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 is
our Sovereign God. Do you believe that God is in
control of all things? Our sovereign God. Do you believe
that He is sovereign over all things? Yes? Okay, we'll
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build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and
then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you
for this day and for the privilege you have given
to us to open up your word again and to
open up our workweek. Father, please teach us your sovereignty.
In Jesus' name, I pray a man and a man again,
So I am going to share from our lesson this time,
I'm going to allow my machine to do what it does.
I call my machine mishkatoo dot o, mishikato dot oh
shout shout out to the real mishka. But we'll get
into that maybe at another point in time.
Speaker 3: God is sovereign, the youth pastor taught his middle school group.
That means he controls everything that happens. One puzzled middle
schooler replied, so God was in control when my dog died.
Why would God kill my dog. Trying to answer this question,
the youth pastor replied, that's a tough one, but sometimes
God lets us go through hard times so that we're
prepared for even more difficult things in the future. I
remember how hard it was when my dog died, but
going through that helped me deal with an even more
difficult time later when my grandma died. Does that make sense.
After a long pause, the middle schooler replied, so God
killed my dog to prepare me for when he is
going to kill my grandma. People sometimes assume that everything
that occurs happens just as God wants it to. Whatever
happens in the world is precisely as God wanted to
have happened. After all, God is almighty, How then could
anything occur that God does not want to occur? Hence,
no matter what happens, no matter how bad it was,
God's will, that at least is what this theology teaches.
Speaker 2: Okay, shout to the real Mishka Mishka May Bonner at
the Central Jamaica Conference. Who is the best, best, best
person that I have ever had a ride with me
in terms of assisting with things that I do? So yeah, anyway,
you have heard though from the Lesson study directly directly
that there are times that people have internal conflicts like
dissonance in our minds, trying to determine whether like God
is fair? Is he just like what is it that
God wants in my life? And an elder told me
one time when I was a young elder. He said,
he said, don't blame God for knowing everything. Do not
blame God for knowing everything, not that he wills everything,
not that he determines everything. So the fact that he
knows that you fill in the blank with the thing
that you despise the most in terms of injustice or
in things that seem to be out of control. On
planet Earth. Just because God knows these things doesn't mean
that he determined these things. Just because he knows these
things doesn't mean that he designed and ordained and wills
these things. And You're like, but come on, Dave. You
said that God is sovereign. You said that he is
all powerful, Blessed be his name, And I'm like, yeah,
I'm repeating what the scriptures say. That is absolutely right.
But can I just say something and I want you
all to listen keenly, and then I'll prove it to you.
God does not always get what God wants. I need
you to let that settle in and I need you
not to turn away from this program. Now, do not
let this program go off. Okay, God is not willing
for anybody to be lost. I just need to prove
that as quickly as possible so nobody misquotes me. I
said God does not always get what God wants. Does
God want you to be saved? Of course the answer
is yes. Does he want everybody to be saved? Of
course the answer is yes. Did Judas is Scariot choose
to be lost? He's dead now? Judas is Scariot, the
one who betrayed Jesus, did he choose to be lost?
Yes he did, And so in the case of judas
Is Scariot, God did not get what God desires. God
is not willing that any should perish. See the Bible
reads in two Peter, chapter three, verses eight through thirteen. Now,
dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your
notice that a single day is like a thousand years
with the Lord, and a thousand years are like a
single day. The Lord is not slow concerning his promise
as some regard slowness, but is being patient toward you,
because he does not wish for any to perish, but
that all come to repentance. The reason Jesus is not
here yet is because he wants as many people as
possible to be saved. He knows that people are going
to make the wrong decisions. He wants to give everybody
ample opportunity, ample time, ample privileges to see his love
and the contrast to the evil that comes from the enemy,
so that everybody can be saved who is willing. But
the fact is God does not always get what he desires.
I think we're clear now. So God is not willing
that anybody should perish, but that it all should come
to repentance, but some people are going to choose to
be lost. And so don't blame God for knowing everything,
and do not blame God as if he determined or
he for or day he willed every little thing on
planet Earth. He did not foreordain or will that Eli
would lose his connection with God. He did not foreordained,
or intend or determine for King Saul to lose his
connection with God. Your brother, your sister, your relatives who
have chosen not to serve God. He did not will
for that. He willed that we would all do what
He has given for us to do, so that one
day we can live in eternal bliss with Him. Now,
God is not complicit in the way that male dominated
society mistreats and abuses women. That is not God's will.
And we could go down through a long list, but
I'm gonna sit here. What did he do to remedy
and restore the dignity and justice in these kinds of situations?
I'll pick one. I'll pick one. There was a woman
who was brought to Jesus who was caught in the
quote very act of adultery. And these wicked men whose
hands were not clean. Tried to get Jesus to execute
this woman through stoning, and the Bible says that he
did some writing on the ground and acts whoever is
bringing her, who feels like they can charge her and
can accuse her. If they are without sin, then let
them condemn her. And to make a long story short,
of course, those guys scurried and scampered away, and Jesus
left with the woman says, I do not condemn you,
ah go and sin no more. He empowered her, He
restored her dignity. His will was for her to have that,
not stoning.
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,