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. It's
May twenty eight, 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 how to study Bible Prophecy,
and our caption for today is wine and Blood. Wine
and Blood. We'll get into that in just a moment,
but first I'd like to just say welcome to everyone
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This is one of the ways that we continue to
build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and
then we will get underway. Father, we do thank you
for giving us the opportunity to open up your word,
and I'm asking you to please go over in our
minds those things that matter most to you. Help us
to be to be connected with you in a special way. Father,
Please teach us how to love you, and when we're thirsty,
to drink from your well and not the wells of
the world. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and a man,
and again, are you thirsty? That's a question this morning?
Are you thirsty? Which cup do you drink from to
satisfy your thirst? And of course today we have two cups,
two cups from which to choose, and we'll talk about
that in detail beginning now. So we're going now into
the Bible Book of Psalms, chapter seventy five. Which cup
are you willing to drink from when you're thirsty? Verses
seven and eight. The Bible reads, but God is the judge.
He puteth down one and setteth up another for the
hand of the Lord. For in the hand of the
Lord there is a cup. I told you, when you're thirsty,
you have two cups from which to choose. There is
a cup, and the wine is red. He poureth out
of the same. But the dregs thereof all the of
the earth shall ring them out and drink them. So,
when you're thirsty, do you want to drink from the
cup of God's wrath? That should be a hearty no.
That should be a no. But there are some key
judgment themes. We'll come back to that in a moment.
Some key judgment themes in the Book of Psalms, chapter
seventy five. Of course, we won't go through the entire book, right,
but or the chapter. But God alone judges, not human powers.
I'm talking about true judgment comes from God, not humans.
There is a cup. There is a symbol of judgment.
That is wrath, that is consequences for sin. That is
the cup you don't want to drink from. Can I
just say that, like, nobody listening to me should be
wanting to drink from that cup. But sometimes people set
themselves up. Sometimes we set ourselves up to drink from
that cup. The righteous are presented as exalted in verses
nine and ten. Now there is another cup. I did
mention it to you. Let's read about it in the
Book of Matthew. The Book of Matthew, chapter twenty six.
If you read verses twenty six through twenty nine, you'll
get the gist of it. But let me just read
from verse twenty eight, and the Bible reads, for this
is my blood of the New Covenant or New Testament,
which is shed for you or for the many, for
the remission of sin. So the cup, the cup of
the New Testament, the cup of mercy. That is the
cup that we want to drink from. You See, we
know that we are sinners saved by grace. We are
sinners who have turned our backs on him. All have
sin and comes short of the glory of God. And
the individuals who get that memo under the Holy Ghost
and say, you know what, God, I don't like the
way that I have treated you. I realize that I
have turned my back on you when you have given
me every possible thing in order to be saved. I
am willing to let you be in control of my life.
Thank you for your mercy. We're drinking from the cup
of mercy. I know that I've been disrespectful to people.
I've been unkind in some situations. I've allowed pride to
separate between you and I and between me and other people.
I've allowed all of the things that I enjoy as
a human being that did not love God. In entertainment,
listening to and seeing and places that I've gone, I
know that those things have separated from me. Thank you
for this cup of the New Testament, this covenant that
you've made with me that you can make me holy.
Thank you for giving me mercy. I'll drink from that cup.
And so an insight from that principle is that God
also gives us a cup. He's offering this one freely
to us, but this one is poured out with forgiveness.
God is pouring out Just imagine He's serving you with forgiveness,
not wrath. At the cross, Jesus actually drank the cup
of judgment and wrath for people who have broken the
law of God. He's drunk that cup already, but he
is now giving us the privilege of drinking from the
cup of mercy. Now. Now this is in contrast to
the cup in Psalm chapter seventy five and then the
ultimate one that is just like that one in Revelation
chapter fourteen, verses nine through twelve. So there's the cup
of wrath, there's the cup of mercy, but then there
is the straight up no chaser that is not mixed
cup of ultimate wrath that comes to people who reject
God's mercy, who ultimately have rejected God's mercy. In Revelation
chapter fourteen and verse ten, the Bible reads the saying
those individuals God forbid the saying, shall drink of the
wine of the wrath of God, which has poured out
without mixture into the cup of his indignation. This judgment
comes to those who reject God's authority regularly, who don't
choose to repent of those sins, those individuals who say
that even though Jesus gave his life for us, that's
not enough. I just want to live my own happy
life according to my own laws, my own principles. Never
mind that God has given us a pathway when he
says this is the way, walking in it, when the
Holy Ghost says, no, go this way. There is a
way that seemeth right to a human being, to a man,
to a woman, to a boy, to a girl. But
the ways thereof are the ways of death. This is
the right pathway. Choose the Lord and serve him, that
is the right pathway. Yes, but there are people who say,
you know what, I don't really care what God did
for me. I don't really care what you all say
that God did for me. I'm going to eat, drink,
and be merry because tomorrow I die. I don't really
care what God wants. This is what some people are choosing.
And in that case, those individuals in the end of
the end of time, if they're living during that time,
they will receive, unfortunately, the mark of the beast. It
is unmixed, meaning there is no mercy mixed in that
cup of wrath. And so what is that steak? Really?
What is that steak is deciding? It's a decision. It's simple.
We get to decide whom will we worship. Will we
worship the devil that we talked about yesterday going up
and down into and fro in the earth, or will
we worship God in the beauty of holiness. It's very simple.
It's very simple. And so there's so much I could say,
but let me say in these few moments, just more
than two minutes to go, that we should live in
hope and not in the headline so much chaos, so
much brokenness, things that will draw the wrath of God
at some point. We don't need to judge God's plan
by the current chaos. How long the Bible writers said,
Oh Lord, how long will you allow the wicked people
to prosper? Do not live according to those headlines. Live
according to hope, hope in God. Refuse the lie of
self exaltation that causes us to separate ourselves from God,
and then work for the good now while longing for
God's final justice. And when He is seen and is
as just as he is, his people will inherit the earth.
Make it a great day, peace. 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,