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, October ten,
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 lessons of Faith from Joshua, and our caption
for today is God's Grace for All? Are you a
part of all? Like all people? God's grace for all.
We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you
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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 thank you, Thank you
for giving us grace, thank you for loving us, thank
you for giving us power to do your will. Help
us never to take this for granted. Jesus. In Jesus' name,
I pray Amen and amen again. Yes, yes, yes, God's
grace for all. We've been talking about his grace for
the last few days now, and so what we're going
to do is is, look at here's what the lesson
writer gave us four for a quote from the book
Patriarch not Patriarchs and Prophets, Prophets and King's page three
hundred and sixty nine, and it reads, no distinction on
account of nationality, race, or cast is recognized by God.
Don't you wish that that was the reality today? Have
you been watching the news lately? Have you been watching
the news lately? Maybe you don't even need to watch
the news. Maybe in your society this issue of race
and caste and nationality, et cetera has become so loaded
and so virulent, almost like a disease, that people can't
see one another as people. Again, we're literally humans of
one blood. The Bible teaches us we are made of
one blood, and we're saved by the blood of Jesus Christ.
And somehow we have allowed where we were born, where
our family comes from, the language or dialects that we speak,
the color of our hair, eyes, skin, et cetera, to
set each other at odds. But God doesn't recognize any
of that. He is the maker of all mankind. I'm
cont continuing to quote all men are of one family
by creation, and all are one through redemption, one blood.
Some of y'all think I'm a singer song, I'm not
gonna do it, but it's true. One blood, one blood,
one blood. And so Christ came to demolish every wall
of partition during Paul's time. Didn't he talk about that
in detail? Yes, broken, that He's broken that middle wall
of partition. In fact, in Isaiah's time, Isaiah spoke of
what it meant to be in covenant with God, that
if we would just keep covenant with Him and keep
the Sabbath, we wouldn't see ourselves as strangers. We wouldn't
see ourselves as broken or torn, or as a a
dry tree. Those are ceremonial terms. At the time. We
will not see ourselves as separated from God, because if
we keep covenant with God, he will give us a
name that is better. It's greater than of sons and
of daughters. It's a name that will remain forever. Why
because God's house is a house of prayer for all people.
So if you come from among people, like human beings,
then it's a house of prayer for you. It's a
house of prayer for you. Christ came to demolish every
wall of partition, to throw open every compartment of the
temple courts that every person, every soul, may be free
to access God. His love is so broad, his love
is so deep, so full, that it penetrates everywhere. It
lifts out of Satan's influence those who have been deluded
by his deceptions, and places them within reach of the
throne of God, thrown and circled by the rainbow promise
in Christ. There is neither in this case. That was
the context Jew or Greek. But that means all of
what I said in the beginning. There was neither bond
nor free. That's amazing grace. God has always seen us
as one people. Even though He scattered the people at
the Tower of Babel, he scattered the people and gave
them new languages all over the world. Now they're scattered,
they're scattered. His word also went all over the world.
They were scattered, they were scattered, and God unified them
in one voice, one holy ghost language at the time
of the Day of Pentecost, in the first century of
the Church of God. Then they were called Christians. Finally, yes,
And the Bible teaches us that the Gospel of Jesus
Christ broke all of that down. How is it that
we hear all of these words, these words of God
in our own languages. They were Parthians and Meads and
people of Mesopotamia, and people from all over the world
hearing the Gospel of Jesus Christ and their own languages.
And so God is asking us today, like, are you
accepting of my grace? So let's get a few lessons
from our context. Though. The Bible teaches us in let's
see First Corinthians, chapter fifteen and verse thirty three. Do
not be deceived. Be not deceived. Evil communication corrupts good
manners or morals. So the Bible shows us that God
is a god of multiple chances. Rahab and Peter and
the people of God all received them by extending grace.
But it doesn't mean that we should enable harm. Okay.
So God's grace calls for repentance and transformation. He empowers
us to be transformed, not endless cycles of sin and abuse.
We're not looking for God to just continue. We fall down,
get up, fall down, get up, fall down, get up.
He is able to keep us from falling in twenty
twenty five and to present us faultless. Jesus is before
the presence with exceeding joy, and so in cases like
an abusive relationship, wisdom and protection are also part of grace.
Extending forgiveness is biblical, but enabling harm is not. Grace
must be joined with justice, even as Joshua blended both
with the Gibea knights, as we see in Joshua Chapter
nine in the twenty first verse straight through a verse
twenty seven. See, we have time. We have time, So
let's go back to Hebrews eleven and thirty one. We
read it already the other day, but let's go again.
By faith. The Harlot. Rahab perish not with them that
did not believe. This is the This is an unexpected
reality for some people. Rahab's story reminds us that faith
can sprout in an unexpected type of soil. Her lifestyle
was far from God's ideal, like God never intended for
anyone to live in Harla tree hmm. Yet God valued
her faith. Why because he gave her that faith. Really
it was an answer in court. Like God gave her
that faith and he valued it. We can celebrate someone's
openness to God without affirming every part of their past.
Rahab's faith was real, but God still led her toward transformation.
So he found her in the way she was, but
he didn't leave her that way. You understand what I'm saying.
So when God finds you, come as you are. People
say that all the time, but oftentimes people say that
as an excuse to remain as we are. But God said,
come as we are. So Rahab's faith was real, but
God's still led her toward transformation. This balance helps us
see seekers of God as God sees them, not for
what they have been, but for what He through the
Holy Ghost, will make them. What He will make them
and so we'll learn really quickly from Rahab. Her mustard
seed sized faith shows that God is more interested in
our direction than our innate perfection. Ah, He's more interested
in our direction than our own human perfection. Let God
perfect you by faith. Make it a great day. Peace.
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.