1 00:00:01,199 --> 00:00:04,160 Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, 2 00:00:04,599 --> 00:00:07,879 because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:12,240 today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's 4 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:15,400 portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep 5 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:19,199 us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going 6 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:23,280 to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today 7 00:00:23,559 --> 00:00:27,399 and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives. 8 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:31,879 Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker, 9 00:00:32,039 --> 00:00:33,079 Elle David Harris. 10 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:36,759 Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Friday, October ten, 11 00:00:37,119 --> 00:00:41,119 twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El David Harris. 12 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:43,880 I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion 13 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:47,280 where we give you God's word every single day, and 14 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:50,960 today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson 15 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:55,799 study series lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our caption 16 00:00:55,880 --> 00:01:00,159 for today is God's Grace for All? Are you a 17 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:05,200 part of all? Like all people? God's grace for all. 18 00:01:05,719 --> 00:01:07,439 We'll get into that in just a moment, but first 19 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:09,079 I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you 20 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:11,599 to go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please 21 00:01:11,799 --> 00:01:15,159 join our online community. Pick up the Your Daily Portion 22 00:01:15,560 --> 00:01:19,280 Life Application Guide and let us know where you are 23 00:01:19,359 --> 00:01:23,359 in the world at your Daily Portion dot com. This 24 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:26,040 is one of the ways that we continue to build 25 00:01:26,079 --> 00:01:30,000 faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then 26 00:01:30,079 --> 00:01:32,799 we will get underway. Father, we thank you, Thank you 27 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:37,400 for giving us grace, thank you for loving us, thank 28 00:01:37,439 --> 00:01:40,439 you for giving us power to do your will. Help 29 00:01:40,519 --> 00:01:44,400 us never to take this for granted. Jesus. In Jesus' name, 30 00:01:44,439 --> 00:01:50,040 I pray Amen and amen again. Yes, yes, yes, God's 31 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:53,319 grace for all. We've been talking about his grace for 32 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:56,560 the last few days now, and so what we're going 33 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:59,920 to do is is, look at here's what the lesson 34 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:03,879 writer gave us four for a quote from the book 35 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:07,959 Patriarch not Patriarchs and Prophets, Prophets and King's page three 36 00:02:08,039 --> 00:02:11,759 hundred and sixty nine, and it reads, no distinction on 37 00:02:11,840 --> 00:02:16,080 account of nationality, race, or cast is recognized by God. 38 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:19,639 Don't you wish that that was the reality today? Have 39 00:02:19,719 --> 00:02:23,639 you been watching the news lately? Have you been watching 40 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:26,680 the news lately? Maybe you don't even need to watch 41 00:02:26,719 --> 00:02:30,520 the news. Maybe in your society this issue of race 42 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:37,199 and caste and nationality, et cetera has become so loaded 43 00:02:37,439 --> 00:02:42,360 and so virulent, almost like a disease, that people can't 44 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:46,680 see one another as people. Again, we're literally humans of 45 00:02:46,759 --> 00:02:50,159 one blood. The Bible teaches us we are made of 46 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:53,479 one blood, and we're saved by the blood of Jesus Christ. 47 00:02:53,479 --> 00:02:57,560 And somehow we have allowed where we were born, where 48 00:02:57,599 --> 00:03:01,840 our family comes from, the language or dialects that we speak, 49 00:03:02,199 --> 00:03:06,000 the color of our hair, eyes, skin, et cetera, to 50 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:12,039 set each other at odds. But God doesn't recognize any 51 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:14,879 of that. He is the maker of all mankind. I'm 52 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:19,039 cont continuing to quote all men are of one family 53 00:03:19,199 --> 00:03:24,639 by creation, and all are one through redemption, one blood. 54 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:27,400 Some of y'all think I'm a singer song, I'm not 55 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:30,520 gonna do it, but it's true. One blood, one blood, 56 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:36,840 one blood. And so Christ came to demolish every wall 57 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:40,439 of partition during Paul's time. Didn't he talk about that 58 00:03:40,639 --> 00:03:45,120 in detail? Yes, broken, that He's broken that middle wall 59 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:48,680 of partition. In fact, in Isaiah's time, Isaiah spoke of 60 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:51,199 what it meant to be in covenant with God, that 61 00:03:51,479 --> 00:03:53,560 if we would just keep covenant with Him and keep 62 00:03:53,599 --> 00:03:57,120 the Sabbath, we wouldn't see ourselves as strangers. We wouldn't 63 00:03:57,159 --> 00:04:00,280 see ourselves as broken or torn, or as a a 64 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:03,800 dry tree. Those are ceremonial terms. At the time. We 65 00:04:03,879 --> 00:04:06,960 will not see ourselves as separated from God, because if 66 00:04:07,039 --> 00:04:09,479 we keep covenant with God, he will give us a 67 00:04:09,560 --> 00:04:12,560 name that is better. It's greater than of sons and 68 00:04:12,599 --> 00:04:15,639 of daughters. It's a name that will remain forever. Why 69 00:04:15,879 --> 00:04:21,319 because God's house is a house of prayer for all people. 70 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:25,360 So if you come from among people, like human beings, 71 00:04:25,959 --> 00:04:28,480 then it's a house of prayer for you. It's a 72 00:04:28,519 --> 00:04:31,600 house of prayer for you. Christ came to demolish every 73 00:04:31,639 --> 00:04:35,439 wall of partition, to throw open every compartment of the 74 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:39,800 temple courts that every person, every soul, may be free 75 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:44,839 to access God. His love is so broad, his love 76 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:49,360 is so deep, so full, that it penetrates everywhere. It 77 00:04:49,519 --> 00:04:54,079 lifts out of Satan's influence those who have been deluded 78 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:58,959 by his deceptions, and places them within reach of the 79 00:04:58,959 --> 00:05:03,600 throne of God, thrown and circled by the rainbow promise 80 00:05:04,199 --> 00:05:08,120 in Christ. There is neither in this case. That was 81 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:12,000 the context Jew or Greek. But that means all of 82 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,560 what I said in the beginning. There was neither bond 83 00:05:16,279 --> 00:05:21,720 nor free. That's amazing grace. God has always seen us 84 00:05:21,759 --> 00:05:25,720 as one people. Even though He scattered the people at 85 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:29,720 the Tower of Babel, he scattered the people and gave 86 00:05:29,759 --> 00:05:32,879 them new languages all over the world. Now they're scattered, 87 00:05:32,920 --> 00:05:36,040 they're scattered. His word also went all over the world. 88 00:05:36,079 --> 00:05:39,600 They were scattered, they were scattered, and God unified them 89 00:05:39,639 --> 00:05:43,480 in one voice, one holy ghost language at the time 90 00:05:43,959 --> 00:05:46,680 of the Day of Pentecost, in the first century of 91 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:51,199 the Church of God. Then they were called Christians. Finally, yes, 92 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:55,120 And the Bible teaches us that the Gospel of Jesus 93 00:05:55,199 --> 00:05:58,959 Christ broke all of that down. How is it that 94 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:02,839 we hear all of these words, these words of God 95 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:05,920 in our own languages. They were Parthians and Meads and 96 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:10,120 people of Mesopotamia, and people from all over the world 97 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:13,560 hearing the Gospel of Jesus Christ and their own languages. 98 00:06:14,079 --> 00:06:16,800 And so God is asking us today, like, are you 99 00:06:16,879 --> 00:06:20,040 accepting of my grace? So let's get a few lessons 100 00:06:20,079 --> 00:06:25,519 from our context. Though. The Bible teaches us in let's 101 00:06:25,519 --> 00:06:29,199 see First Corinthians, chapter fifteen and verse thirty three. Do 102 00:06:29,319 --> 00:06:34,560 not be deceived. Be not deceived. Evil communication corrupts good 103 00:06:35,199 --> 00:06:39,160 manners or morals. So the Bible shows us that God 104 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:43,560 is a god of multiple chances. Rahab and Peter and 105 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:47,279 the people of God all received them by extending grace. 106 00:06:47,319 --> 00:06:51,000 But it doesn't mean that we should enable harm. Okay. 107 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:55,040 So God's grace calls for repentance and transformation. He empowers 108 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:58,439 us to be transformed, not endless cycles of sin and abuse. 109 00:06:58,879 --> 00:07:01,560 We're not looking for God to just continue. We fall down, 110 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:03,759 get up, fall down, get up, fall down, get up. 111 00:07:05,079 --> 00:07:08,120 He is able to keep us from falling in twenty 112 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:11,920 twenty five and to present us faultless. Jesus is before 113 00:07:11,959 --> 00:07:17,279 the presence with exceeding joy, and so in cases like 114 00:07:17,399 --> 00:07:22,399 an abusive relationship, wisdom and protection are also part of grace. 115 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:31,920 Extending forgiveness is biblical, but enabling harm is not. Grace 116 00:07:32,199 --> 00:07:37,519 must be joined with justice, even as Joshua blended both 117 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:40,480 with the Gibea knights, as we see in Joshua Chapter 118 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:44,279 nine in the twenty first verse straight through a verse 119 00:07:44,319 --> 00:07:46,839 twenty seven. See, we have time. We have time, So 120 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:50,120 let's go back to Hebrews eleven and thirty one. We 121 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:52,720 read it already the other day, but let's go again. 122 00:07:52,879 --> 00:07:56,240 By faith. The Harlot. Rahab perish not with them that 123 00:07:56,399 --> 00:08:01,000 did not believe. This is the This is an unexpected 124 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:05,000 reality for some people. Rahab's story reminds us that faith 125 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:09,879 can sprout in an unexpected type of soil. Her lifestyle 126 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,240 was far from God's ideal, like God never intended for 127 00:08:13,279 --> 00:08:18,360 anyone to live in Harla tree hmm. Yet God valued 128 00:08:18,439 --> 00:08:22,040 her faith. Why because he gave her that faith. Really 129 00:08:22,120 --> 00:08:24,120 it was an answer in court. Like God gave her 130 00:08:24,160 --> 00:08:28,680 that faith and he valued it. We can celebrate someone's 131 00:08:28,839 --> 00:08:34,039 openness to God without affirming every part of their past. 132 00:08:34,879 --> 00:08:41,480 Rahab's faith was real, but God still led her toward transformation. 133 00:08:41,639 --> 00:08:44,600 So he found her in the way she was, but 134 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:47,399 he didn't leave her that way. You understand what I'm saying. 135 00:08:47,639 --> 00:08:49,840 So when God finds you, come as you are. People 136 00:08:49,879 --> 00:08:52,720 say that all the time, but oftentimes people say that 137 00:08:52,759 --> 00:08:55,840 as an excuse to remain as we are. But God said, 138 00:08:55,840 --> 00:08:59,519 come as we are. So Rahab's faith was real, but 139 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:04,480 God's still led her toward transformation. This balance helps us 140 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:09,759 see seekers of God as God sees them, not for 141 00:09:09,879 --> 00:09:14,240 what they have been, but for what He through the 142 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:20,200 Holy Ghost, will make them. What He will make them 143 00:09:20,639 --> 00:09:24,399 and so we'll learn really quickly from Rahab. Her mustard 144 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:28,840 seed sized faith shows that God is more interested in 145 00:09:28,879 --> 00:09:36,000 our direction than our innate perfection. Ah, He's more interested 146 00:09:36,039 --> 00:09:41,600 in our direction than our own human perfection. Let God 147 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:44,639 perfect you by faith. Make it a great day. Peace. 148 00:09:45,039 --> 00:09:48,519 Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot 149 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:51,639 live by bread alone, but by every word that comes 150 00:09:51,639 --> 00:09:54,720 from the mouth of God. This has been your daily 151 00:09:54,759 --> 00:10:00,279 portion with El David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah.