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 Wednesday, March 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 God's Love and Justice, and our caption for
today is Christ's Parable of the Vineyard, Christ's Parable of
the Vineyard. Before we get into that, I'd like to
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Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
Father in heaven, thank you for giving us this new
day and for loving us so far beyond our belief. Father,
thank you for the privilege of being called your children.
Please teach us to be receptive to your voice. In
Jesus' name, I pray a men and a men again.
So I'm going to preempt myself. Pardon me, pardon me.
I'm going to preempt myself by saying that I am
going to give you the pathway or the blueprint for repentance,
especially for those of you who are running from God.
I know it's odd for me to come on to
this program at this moment and just say that there's
somebody running from God. Listen, Statistically, it's easy to predict.
There are always a set of people who are being
brought to a platform, brought to a radio program, brought
to something where God is speaking through his words. There
are always people who need the pathway, and so I'm
going to give it to you. But in the interim,
I'm going to read from Matthew Chapter twenty one as
you're praying. You're praying if you are already one of
God's children and you are in good stead. If you
want to say with him, then pray for the other
ones who are going to need the pathway. I'm about
to give. Okay, but first let me read from Matthew
chapter twenty one, and I'll read beginning at verse twenty three. Listen,
listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted
his vineyard. He put a fence around it. That sounds familiar.
He dug a pit for its wine press, and built
a watch tower. Then he leased to the tenant farmers
and went on a journey. When the harvest time was near,
he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his
portion of the crops. But the tenants seized the servants,
beat one, killed another, and stoned another. Wait a minute,
what And he sent verse thirty six other servants, more
than the first, and they treated them the same way.
Finally he sent his son. They said to themselves, this
is the air. Come, let us kill him and get
his inheritance. So verse thirty nine seized him, threw him
out of the vineyard, and they killed him. Now, hold on,
hold on, hold, on, hold on, hold on. So we
read in Isaiah chapter five a very similar story, but
now we see more details. We see that the landowner
in the end after the people that he sent, He
sent people time after time, time after time, with his authority,
with his intent, like they represented him, they worked for him.
He sent them, and they were mistreated and killed. Of course,
this is an image of God sending his messages through
his profits, throughout the ages, to his people first, to
his people first, because really repentance begins with the House
of God, like we need to learn how to connect
with God before anybody else real talk. And then we
go out and we share the same messages with others.
But the let the story continues to say that when
they had done all of that, he sent his best messenger.
I think many of you your lights are turning on,
like your minds aren't grasping this. He sent his son
for God so loved the world. The Bible says that
he sent his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in
him would not perish but have everlasting life. God didn't
send his son into the world to condemn the world,
but that the world through him might be saved. This
is what the Bible is teaching. God sent all of
heaven in one gift. But the Bible also teaches that
he was betrayed. Jesus was betrayed into the hands of
his accusers. The Bible says that he came to his own,
and his own received him. Not but thankfully he said,
to as many as receive him. We're going to talk
about that receiving God pardon a moment, but to as
many as received him, to them gave he the power
to become his children. And so it's very interesting that
the connection between the two passages, the one I just
read in one in Isaiah chapter five, is that he
sent the prophets, he sent more prophets, finally he sent
his son. Then his son was killed, and of course
the question at the end in the Isaiah text is
what more could I do? And of course, unfortunately, the
resounding and reverberating answer is you couldn't do any more
because you sent your best in the person and work
of your dear son. And so, you know, it's interesting
that the story continues in Matthew chapter twenty one, and
you know, the people he was speaking to right after that,
they were trying to find a way to take Jesus's life.
Jesus's speaking this parable, and just like the parable said,
like he gave them the option. He said, yay, what
what what should the landowner do in this scenario? And
they were like, we need you need to deal with
those people, the people who would do that, they need
to be judged like they need to be dealt harsh
with heart, dealt with harshly. And then the Bible says that, uh, yeah,
they really were about to try to destroy Jesus. So
they were a fulfillment of that prophecy. They basically called
judgment down on themselves, on themselves. Yes, it's a deliberate pause.
I promised you that we would talk about a pathway
to repentance because true, indeed, sometimes we find ourselves separated
from God at times. And so the Bible teaches us
to acknowledge sin. In reality, I'm talking about own it,
not just identify it, but own it. The Bible reads
in first John chapter one, beginning at verse eight, if
we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves
and the truth is not in us. But God doesn't
leave us there. Okay, He wants us to be able
to identify it. He wants us to be able to
own it. And then the Bible says, if we confess
our sins, that means that we're agreeing with God his
perspective about what actually happened. We are telling him the
truth about what we have done or not done that
has offended him and broken his law. If we confess
our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us
our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Number two,
we are to allow God to help us to feel
godly sorrow or sinse godly sorrow for sin. In tewod Corinthians,
chapter seven and verse ten, the Bible reads, for godly sorrow,
see he gives us. This produces a repentance, that is
a turning away, a turning away from sin that brings
no regret like you don't regret. Turning away from sin.
Worldly sorrow brings about death. And so we accept the
godly sorrow that God gives us for sinning. And then
we turn from our sins. That's clear in the Bible.
Turn away from our sins number four, Turn toward God,
turn away number three from our sins, turn forward toward God. Really,
I should have turned it the other way. Four should
be turn away from sin. Three should be turned toward God.
And then, of course look for the fruits of repentance.
Bear fruit, bring forth therefore fruits that prove our repentance.
Thank God, he has given us a pathway to connect
with Him. Thanks for joining us listening. 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,