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 Friday, September twelve,
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 through the Book of Exodus, and our caption
for today is the Danger of idolatry. The danger of idolatry.
Before we get into that this preparation day morning, I'd
like to say welcome to everyone joining us and just
say a great big thank you. Thank you to all
of the people who listen and watch every single day
and you are sharing You are sharing this with people.
Tens of thousands of you are sharing, and almost a
million people every day have the privilege of experiencing God's
word through this little program that we started many years ago,
before there was a pandemic, before people could see the
value of something like this. God gave the vision and
we've been running this ball for the entire time, Thank God.
And I'm just asking you to continue to do that
because Jesus said it, This Gospel of the Kingdom shall
be preached into all the world for a witness. Then
and only then shall the income. Everybody's looking for signs
for things to blow up and burn down, that is
not it. He said that the Gospel of the Kingdom
will be preached. So take up the man to do
your part. I'll do mine by God's grace, and we'll
look forward to the coming of the Lord. Let's pray, Father,
we thank you for this day. Please prepare our hearts
to experience you and to live with you eternally. In
Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again. I'm not
sure if I really need to say what the dangers
of idolatry are, because I think you know that already,
like you know you're in danger of separating yourself God
forbid you, but separating yourself from God forever? Like why
would anybody want to separate ourselves from God forever? Why
would we want to replace God with the little things
that we worship? Humans worship the silliest things. Why would
I worship my own image on the internet? But the
little you know? Every time I turn around, somebody's got
a phone up, Like every minute you're recording every moment
of every day, always with a ring light, like always
what your filters are? Always posing with people, places, and
things constantly all day long. What if we put more
effort into posing with God. I don't mean just posing.
I'm talking about connecting with him, having our arms around
him in a spiritual sense, and saying, yes, I'm with God,
instead of posting every little movement, every little thought. You
see the enemy what he has done. And I use
social media, I get it, like I use YouTube and
other media outlets, traditional media included. I get it like
we we have a message to share, we have content
to put out. We want to add value. But there
comes a point when the enemy is really just taking
all of the thoughts that used to be secrets in
your brain and in mind and causing us, giving us
a facility to just leak it all out with no filter.
So put God first, and let him be the one
to be your God. And not the other stuff. Not
our cars, not our relationships with people, not how we
see ourselves, not our things, not our bank accounts, not
our pursuits. Don't put anything or anyone above God and
will be safe. In fact, in Romans Chapter Romans, chapter one,
beginning of verse eighteen, straight through to the end, we
see the danger. The danger is that God will allow
us to have the thing that we run after, and
we don't want that. And in the meantime, He will
turn over the people who just refuse to love love,
who refuse to put him first. He will allow those individuals.
He will give them the reprobate mind that they have
developed by putting other things first. They're calling evil good
and good evil. Whoe unto those who call evil good
and good evil, the prophets said in Isaiah chapter five.
And so that is not the direction we want to take.
And so I'm reading now from the book Patriarchs and Prophets,
page three hundred and twenty five. Love no less than
justice demanded that for this sin, judgment should be inflicted.
God is the guardian as well as the sovereign of
his people. He cuts off those who are determined upon rebellion.
Determined is the operative term that they may not lead
others to ruin. Do you understand now what's happening. God
has to cut off the channel of bad influence, the
channel of the evil virus of sin, so that that
behavior does not go viral. This is why there has
to be a process, if God forbid. Like when I
was twenty three, I was a manager. I was a
middle manager in the psych field, in the psych field,
in the same organization that I worked for three and
a half years until that point, and there were nine
of my eleven staff that should have been fired, I
promise you. But I was a young guy who I
understood the Bible, and I called me keeping them merciful.
But one woman used to walk around the actual organization
and decry like and speak and say some things that
I just won't repeat. And I did not see that
as the time that she needed to be corrected. And
I have more stories. It wasn't just her, it was others.
And I'm like, okay, okay. So there was a time
that we think that mercy is mercy when it's really
just an emboldening people in sin and also spreading the
virus of evil into your organization, into your company, into
your church fellowship, into your family. If you don't check
sin the way that God says, I said, the way
God says, then it will spread as a virus. And
so God was showing this in sparing the life of Cain.
God demonstrated to the universe that what would be the
result of permitting sin to go unpunished. The influence exerted
upon his descendants by his life and teaching led to
the state of corruption that demanded the destruction of the
entire world by a flood. Did you hear what I
just said? The entire world needed to be destroyed because
because the people followed so many of the people followed
the pathway of king. Do you see where this is going.
We are seeing that even some governments, sometimes in church organizations,
people are just completely disconnecting themselves from God and they
are now spreading a virus to the point that God
is going to have to act. Continuing the quote, the
longer men lived, the more corrupt they became. So with
the apostasy at Sinai talking about the Golden Calf incident,
the thing that Aaron wanted people to believe with some
kind of mystical, magical things that happened, when really he
was the one responsible for dragging the people who required
it of him into sin an apostasy. Yeah, unless punishment
had been speedily visited upon transgression, the same results would
again have been seen. Can I just say it another way,
Like we've seen this movie before, God destroyed the Earth
by water by flood. He did that. That was in
the whole Genesis account the first few thousand years of
the world's history. He had to destroy everything un planet Earth,
and almost everybody was destroyed. The people who were alive,
almost everybody except except eight people at the point of
the flood. The people who were alive at the point
of the flood, only eight of them were saved. Some
of God's people went to sleep before the flood, but
that's a different discussion. So we do not want to
see this happen again. So God, instead of allowing this
insidious virus to spread, he had to deal with the
sin in his people. Thank God, he was merciful and
did not destroy the entire lot of them, at least
not at that point. I mean, there came a point
when all besides besides Joshua and Caleb that were above
twenty years of age, they did get destroyed, but not
in this moment. God gave them everything they needed to
be successful. So what God is telling us today is
that it is so much of a blessing for us
to love Him and to do what He says, so
that we don't even have to worry about being destroyed.
That is such a cloudy judgment situation that we can
be holy and be with Him forever.
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,