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 Thursday. It
is the nineteenth day of June in 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 under the caption the Mark of the Beast,
The Mark of the Beast. We'll get into that in
just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome
to you and ask you to please go over to
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Pick up your Daily Portion life application guide. In fact,
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now as promise at your Daily Portion dot com. This
is one of the ways that we continue to build
faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then
get under way. Father, We thank you for this day,
for the privilege we have to come together in this
manner every single day and open up your word. Please
give us wisdom and understanding in Jesus name, I pray,
Amen and Amen again. All right, let me start out
with a couple of disclaimers. Number one, we are not
going to be studying the detail of what the mark
of the Beast is, etc. And number two, you can
actually go to Sabbathtruth dot com. Sabbathtruth dot com. Over
the years I've shared this site with you and you
can discover all you need to know really from the
Bible and history and ancient history about the change of
the Sabbath and how or what was attempted to be
a change of the Sabbath. Nobody can change the Sabbath
of the Lord our God, the seventh Day Sabbath, but
all that you need to know in history, ancient history,
and in the Bible concerning the Sabbath and the mark
of the Beast is right there at sabbathtruth dot com.
And so what I want to do now is elevate
our minds principally and just ask a simple question, whose
name or mark or impression do you want on your life?
God's or the devils? Really, if you answer this question,
we can almost end the program right here. If your
answer is God's, then we will give you some principles
about how to be connected with him. We all need
that connection. And if it's the devil, then we will
beg you please change your mind, ask the Holy Ghost
to change your mind. You should have no interest in
going down a slippery slope toward wherever the enemy would
have you to go, you see. And so where the
Sabbath is concerned, it is something that the world somehow
has made so complicated when the Bible is very clear
that one of the ten Commandments, it's not all of
the commandments, but one of the ten commandments says to
keep the seventh day Sabbath holy. It's very simple. And
God has said that it is the sign between God
and his people that he is the Lord, which doth
sanctify us. He said it in the Book of Moses,
he said it in the book of Ezekiel. And of
course we see the principle throughout scripture. But somehow worldly
powers and religio political powers have thought that if they
could just change and switch it to another day, then
it would somehow signify their power. And it's like no, no, no, no, no, no,
this is not acceptable. It's not acceptable. We do not
allow people to get away with just changing what God
has said. We see in Eden when the devil did
that in the mind of Eve, and she was deceived
and then ate of the fruit that God said not
to eat. He tried the same thing with Jesus in
the wilderness, but of course Jesus didn't go for the
okie dope or for the part of me. He didn't
go for the deception that the devil had prescribed. And
so let's just go ahead and start with one principle.
Principle number one. The Sabbath is a test of allegian
I pledge allegiance to God. This is one of the
ways that we can do so. And very interesting in
Matthew chapter twelve and verse twelve, wherefore it is lawful
to do well on the Sabbath days. Or so then
it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath. When
Jesus was living on planet Earth, people who did not
love him, in fact, they hated him, but they said
that they were the children of God. Those individuals tried
to teach Jesus what the Sabbath was and how to
keep or to not keep the Sabbath. And when he
was doing good works like healing people, setting people free
on the Sabbath, they said, no, that's not the right
use of the seventh day Sabbath. And so he taught them.
Because he is the one who created us. He is
the one whose voice thundered on Mount Horeb or Mount
Sinai those ten words we call the ten Commandments. He
is saying it is lawful to do well on the
Sabbath days, to give life, to save life on the
Sabbath day. And so the application for me is that
the Sabbath reveals who's authority we honor. Is it human
traditions or is it God and his laws. Keep the
Sabbath as an act of covenant loyalty. Now, I don't
want to get the cart in the horse priority mixed up.
The only way we can keep the Sabbath, the only
way we can love God, the only way that we
can tell the truth on a consistent basis. The only
way that we can love our neighbors as ourselves is
if we have the power of the holy ghosts in
our lives. And it's then that we can do his
will if we love him. He promises us that he'll
empower us to keep his commandments, including the Fourth Commandment,
which enjoins keeping the seventh day Sabbath holy. Okay, and
so in verse twenty, in verse fourteen, the Bye says,
then the Pharisees went out and held a counsel against him,
how they might destroy him? Now that's weird. How can
people that say their people of God, who are trying
to teach Jesus how to keep the seventh day Sabbath,
how can they now look for a way to destroy Jesus.
Come on, man, come on, that's not right. So expect backlash,
even from people who say they're God's people. Ah, when
God's truth confronts man made systems, stand firm, even when
obedience seems to be costly. I wish I had the time.
Let's go to John chapter five and verse sixteen. The
Bible reads, and therefore did the people of God, so
called people of God, persecute Jesus and sought to slay
him because he had done these things on the Sabbath day.
I said that earlier. I said it earlier. So the
controversy over the Sabbath versus tradition is not minor. It
will divide the world in the last days. It did
it during Jesus's time. It wasn't about switching the time
or switching the commandment, but those men and his time
wanted to switch. How God showed what the Sabbath was
really about. It was made for us. It was not
that we should worship the Sabbath. We worship God, and
He gives us the privilege of experience experiencing a special
encounter with Him on the Sabbath. But the controversy will
divide the world again. Practice faithfulness now while it is
not controversial. While is not controversial. And then in James
chapter four and verse seventeen, the Bible reads, therefore to
him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not
to him it is sin. And so when we rationalize disobedience,
whatever it is, if it's something that God has revealed,
we can't just lay back and say, well, God is
working with me. If God has opened up his word
to our minds and the Holy Ghost is now present
and saying listen, there are people that have been talking
about these truths. There are words in the scripture that
show very clearly what God's view of this is, His
intent for this and for you an eternity is And
if I God forbid rationalize and turn my back on this,
then of course to me it is sin. And why
would anybody who really really says that I enjoy my
relationship with God want to do anything contrary to His will.
There's so much more that we could say, but again,
go to sabbathtruth dot com for the details about the
seventh day Sabbath, the Mark of the Beast, and these
last days. Let me know what you find.
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,