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. It's
April twenty, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is Elle
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 Nimrod and Nineveh. Nimrod and Nineveh.
We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father
and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day
and for this new work week. I pray that you
will give us the wizdom that we need to apply
the truths that we will discover today. In Jesus' name,
I pray Amen and Amen again. Our caption is Nimrod
and Nineveh. Nimrod and Nineveh. And as I said in
the preamble, please pick up the Companion Guide because, like
I said, it's very easy to read and then just
completely forget how to apply what we have read to
our personal lives, okay, personal spiritual, our relationship lives, and
our professional lives. Okay, So the lesson writer said something
very interesting. In the very beginning of it. Eden was
created as the ideal home for the human race. Once
sin entered, God had no choice but to separate humanity
from the Garden and the Tree of Life, at least
for now. Now, let me just get this very clear.
Sometimes people miss this. The Garden of Eden wasn't the
entire planet, right, And outside of the Garden of Eden
wasn't something negative or somehow distant from God. It's just that,
if I were to use today's language, the Garden of
Eden seemed to be the capital of the world, the
capital of the earth if you want to say home base.
That is where Adam and Eve actually lived. They lived
in the capital of the world, and the Tree of
Life was in the capital of the world. I wish
I had the time to develop that, okay, But because
of their sin, God had to restrict access from this
capital of the world that also had the Tree of
Life as an insulation against them being eternal sinners. So
I wish I had the time, but I don't. But
God did something very special. Now let me go to
the book Prophets or Patriarchs and prophets. Let's see page
sixty eight. The garden of Eden remained on the earth
long after humankind had become an outcast from its pleasant paths.
Hither came Adam and his sons to worship God. Here
they renewed their vows of obedience to that law of
the transgression of which had banished them from Eden. When
the tide of iniquity overspread the world, the wickedness of
humankind determined their destruction. By a flood of waters. The
hand that planted Eden withdrew it from the earth. But
in the final restitution, when there shall be a new
Heaven and a new Earth, it is to be restored
more gloriously adorned than at the beginning. Did you get
that God is going to restore it more gloriously then
at the beginning. Sometimes I wonder, and normally I don't
talk about what I'm wondering or guessing. I try to
stick to what we can obviously see. But sometimes I
wonder if in the end analysis, after the thousand years
following Jesus's return, I wonder if the Holy City New Jerusalem,
and Eden are the same one and the same, like
the New Jerusalem being the new and improved version. That's
something I'm wondering. Go ahead and type it in the
chat and tell me what you think about that, and
certainly come into our community and talk about that, because
the Tree of Life is there, and there's some other reasons.
But I digress, I digress. I don't want to just
wonder on this or wander for that matter, on this program.
So let's go ahead now to Genesis chapter three and
begin at verse sixteen. The Bible says, unto the woman,
he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception.
In sorrow, shalt thou bring fourth children, and then thy
and desire shall be for thy husband, and he shall
rule over thee. And and to Adam, he said, because
thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and
hast eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee,
saying thou shalt not eat of it. Cursed is the
ground for thy sake. Y'all need to know that whatever's
going wrong on planet Earth is Adam's fault. It was
not Eve's fault. I just don't have the time to
deal with that. Adam represented the human race. It was
Adam's sin that caused degradation and our proclivity or predisposition
to sin. I wish I really had the time, but
I don't. But just get that straight right here. And
now Adam jumped into sin. Eve was deceived. She fell
into sin. But the Bible continues, thou shalt not eat.
I told you to. Don't eat of it. Curse is
the ground for thy sake and sorrow. Shalt thou eat
all of the days of thy life, thorns and thistles.
Shalt thou bring forth to thee, and thou shalt eat
of the herb of the field. And in the sweat
of thy brow thou shalt eat bread till thou return
unto the ground. And so there were a couple of
responses to this new reality, because Adam and Eve had sinned.
Adam in particular, Number one is a faith response, a
faith response as outlined in Hebrews chapter eleven and verse four.
By faith, Able offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice
than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was
righteous God, testifying of his gifts, and by it, he
being dead, yet speaketh. And then there was a human response.
Of course, we could just go to Cain for that.
But let's fast forward to Nimrod. There was a faith response,
Able was a faithful youth. And then there was somebody
in the Bible named Nimrod. In Genesis chapter ten and
verses eight and nine, the Bible says Cush was the
father of Nimrod. He began and to be a valiant
warrior or a mighty one in the earth. He was
mighty hunter before the Lord. That's why I said, like Nimrod,
a mighty hunter before the Lord. Now some people think
that's a compliment, but if you look at what Nimrod
actually did with his life, he was the beginning of
a really terrible dynasty of people who were self reliant
and decided that they could overcome what God commanded and
said what happened on planet Earth. Now, there is a
problem with our hearts posture. There's a problem like some
people don't choose a like Abell did, and choose b
like Nimrod instead. And so the Bible says about us
left by ourselves in Jeremiah chapter seventeen and verse nine,
the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
Who can know it? And so This shows us that
we can be protected against rebellion because Abel was Abel
knew how to live godly, even though he paid with
his life. But we can recognize human the tendency of humanity.
We can maintain our dependence upon God. We can submit
to God's authority just like Abel did, wait for God's
timing and trust in his promises and accept his methods.
Remember the lessons in Eden that Abel are after Eden
that Abel showed us. But this showed us that Paradise
lost needs divine restoration and human solutions will fail. We
see that at the Tower of Babel. But God is ready,
willing and available to make us holy and overcome our
human proclivities.
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,