December 19, 2025 • 10 mins
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Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris is a Bible-centered teaching ministry committed to helping people engage Scripture daily with clarity and purpose. This program is a service of Your Daily Portion Ministries, Inc., and is made possible through the faithful support of listeners and viewers.
If this teaching blesses you, consider supporting the work so it can continue reaching others around the world through radio, podcasts, and digital platforms.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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
(00:22):
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 (00:33):
Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Friday, December nineteen,
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 just a little longer, lessons of Faith from Joshua,
(00:57):
and our caption for today is the certain of God's Word.
The certainty of God's Word. Before we get into that,
i'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially
those joining us for the very first time. I'm asking
you to go over to your Daily Portion dot Com,
the website Your Daily Portion dot Com. I'd like you
(01:19):
to join our online community click the donate button. Also
let us know where you are in the world at
your Daily Portion dot com. Listen. I don't know if
you've already picked up the Life Application Guide for quarter
one in twenty twenty six. We're coming up on it.
It's only a week away that we begin the lesson
(01:41):
study formally, so please pick that up. And this is
one of the ways that we continue to build faith
and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, thank you for this Friday,
this time of preparation. Help us to prepare our hearts
and not just our stuff. Please give us holiness in
(02:01):
Jesus' name. I pray, Amen and Amen again. I neglected
to ask you to come out tonight. Come out tonight
to the Your Daily Portion YouTube channel, and we will
be having our lessons study through the week like the
teachings of the week's study through music as we have
been doing lately. So please come out, come out, come out.
(02:24):
You'll see it there already listed and ready for you
to get the notification. So let's go ahead and jump
right in, and as per usual, I will go back
into the eighteen hundreds, dig into the crates and see
if there's anything that can be useful to us for today,
And I did find one in the review in Herald
(02:48):
August twenty, eighteen seventy four. You'iah Smith is the author.
The Law reveals sin, Justice reveals it's penalty. Heard that, clearly,
all that's good. The law reveals sin, Justice reveals its penalty. Well, now, what, God,
are you going to just leave us here? No? Here?
(03:11):
It continues. The Gospel reveals the one who bears that penalty.
So we're not just identifying the problem. I think the problem.
One of the problems with Christian E speaking people, that's
what I call us sometimes it's a language, right, is
we're able to identify problems, problems, problems, we know what
they are. We have complaints, complaints, we know what those
(03:32):
are and what we should be doing. We know what
that is. But do we actually live the gospel? That's
the question. The Gospel of Jesus Christ reveals the one
who bears that penalty. In this harmony, the certainty of
God's word stands unshaken. So we see what the problem
(03:55):
is sin. We see what the other problem is. Oh,
if I'm a sin, then I'm going to be what condemned?
Oh but I need a remedy. What's the remedy Jesus
Christ bearing the penalty for me? And all I need
to do is consistently surrender my will to God and
He will deal with all of that problem in my life,
(04:18):
not just in the universe. The universe the way the
universe getting a lot of pub these days. Anyway, let
me continue before I get sidetracked from the book Patriarchs
and Prophets, page five hundred and twenty two. God has
faithfully pointed out the results of sin fast forwarding. If
his warnings were not true, how could we be sure
(04:42):
his promises would be fulfilled? So we can really actually
see that what God says about the hardness hard the
way of the wicked is hard. And when God says,
if you do this, then this is the outcome. If
you do that, then that is the outcome. If you
do this, this is the outcome. And since he has
one hundred percent accuracy rate over all of the millennia
(05:06):
since humans first heard that if you eat of the
fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
you shall surely die. Well, we're Adam and Eve now,
I mean, where's Adam and Eve right now? They're dead
like they're dead, and spiritually they began to die. But God, ha,
But God, through what Euriahs said a little while ago,
(05:30):
we read what he had written through the Gospel, he
bore the penalty so they didn't have to die eternally.
So presumably they're resting in the grave awaiting the command
of God for them to come up, for the earth
to give up, and then he will take his people
to heaven for a thousand years and then inherit the
(05:50):
earth for the rest of eternity. Okay, so I know
I said a lot. Let's go to our lesson number
one for today. It is God's warnings are as certain
as his promises. From the Book Number of Numbers, chapter
twenty three and verse nineteen, we read God is not
a man that he should lie, he has said, and
(06:15):
shall he not do it? Let me read it from
another translation, New English translation. God is not a human
being that he should lie, has he said, and will
he not do it? So when God says something, we
can take that to the bank, because he's one hundred
percent right, one hundred percent of the time, and he's
(06:35):
always telling the truth. And so the word for lie
here we see God is not lying. He's not lying.
He's not like humans who do lie. He's not like
the devil who's the father of lie. So the word
for lie kazav it means to deceive, but it also
means to fail. God doesn't fail. We know he doesn't deceive.
(07:01):
And to prove false, well, God's always true. He's always right.
God's warnings and promises flow from the same unchanging character.
Just as God fulfilled every good word to his people,
according to Joshua, chapter twenty one and verse forty five,
he will fulfill every warning regarding sin. Nothing to see here, folks,
(07:26):
like people think that we can over Sometimes humans believe
that we can. It's almost like when people are ready
to commit a crime, they feel like they're not gonna
do the time. Humans feel like if they can escape
the reality of the law, Like what's supposed to happen,
if I God forbid rob a bank, We think we
can do that with impunity, because maybe one time he
(07:47):
robbed a bank, two times he robbed a bank. But
eventually I wanted to say it a certain way, but
I won't because we're on the air. You're gonna get caught.
I mean, it's just a matter of time. But whether
or not humans catch you, you know, God is always watching.
God is not mocked what a human will sow. That's
what humans will also reap. And so real talk like
(08:11):
divine justice. Isn't God trying to get at us, Like
He's not looking for a way to just be punitive.
It is necessary. It is an expression of his holiness
and his reliability. He is committed to restoring love as
the overarching principle and pervasive principle everywhere in the universe.
(08:36):
And sin is in the way. He has to destroy
sin full stop. And so your actions step forward today
and mind is to reflect on one biblical warning that
God speaks to your life. Lets its certainty lead you
to deeper surrender and obedience. I'm going to give you
(08:57):
the other two lessons quickly. Lesson number two is sin
cannot be excused. Its consequences are real. God doesn't turn
a blind eye. He doesn't say, because I love you,
I'm going to act like you didn't. Because he loves you,
he gave you, he gave me Jesus Christ. Jesus died
the death that we deserve so we can live the
(09:18):
life that he deserves. So God is not excusing sin.
He's not sweeping it under the rug like some church
people do in committee meetings and acting like so that
it can become some political football to kick around. No.
Lesson number three. As we close, God's justice and love
meet fully in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Make it
(09:41):
a great day. Peace.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
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.
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
(00:22):
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 (00:33):
Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Friday, December nineteen,
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 just a little longer, lessons of Faith from Joshua,
(00:57):
and our caption for today is the certain of God's Word.
The certainty of God's Word. Before we get into that,
i'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially
those joining us for the very first time. I'm asking
you to go over to your Daily Portion dot Com,
the website Your Daily Portion dot Com. I'd like you
(01:19):
to join our online community click the donate button. Also
let us know where you are in the world at
your Daily Portion dot com. Listen. I don't know if
you've already picked up the Life Application Guide for quarter
one in twenty twenty six. We're coming up on it.
It's only a week away that we begin the lesson
(01:41):
study formally, so please pick that up. And this is
one of the ways that we continue to build faith
and fellowship. Let's pray, Father, thank you for this Friday,
this time of preparation. Help us to prepare our hearts
and not just our stuff. Please give us holiness in
(02:01):
Jesus' name. I pray, Amen and Amen again. I neglected
to ask you to come out tonight. Come out tonight
to the Your Daily Portion YouTube channel, and we will
be having our lessons study through the week like the
teachings of the week's study through music as we have
been doing lately. So please come out, come out, come out.
(02:24):
You'll see it there already listed and ready for you
to get the notification. So let's go ahead and jump
right in, and as per usual, I will go back
into the eighteen hundreds, dig into the crates and see
if there's anything that can be useful to us for today,
And I did find one in the review in Herald
(02:48):
August twenty, eighteen seventy four. You'iah Smith is the author.
The Law reveals sin, Justice reveals it's penalty. Heard that, clearly,
all that's good. The law reveals sin, Justice reveals its penalty. Well, now, what, God,
are you going to just leave us here? No? Here?
(03:11):
It continues. The Gospel reveals the one who bears that penalty.
So we're not just identifying the problem. I think the problem.
One of the problems with Christian E speaking people, that's
what I call us sometimes it's a language, right, is
we're able to identify problems, problems, problems, we know what
they are. We have complaints, complaints, we know what those
(03:32):
are and what we should be doing. We know what
that is. But do we actually live the gospel? That's
the question. The Gospel of Jesus Christ reveals the one
who bears that penalty. In this harmony, the certainty of
God's word stands unshaken. So we see what the problem
(03:55):
is sin. We see what the other problem is. Oh,
if I'm a sin, then I'm going to be what condemned?
Oh but I need a remedy. What's the remedy Jesus
Christ bearing the penalty for me? And all I need
to do is consistently surrender my will to God and
He will deal with all of that problem in my life,
(04:18):
not just in the universe. The universe the way the
universe getting a lot of pub these days. Anyway, let
me continue before I get sidetracked from the book Patriarchs
and Prophets, page five hundred and twenty two. God has
faithfully pointed out the results of sin fast forwarding. If
his warnings were not true, how could we be sure
(04:42):
his promises would be fulfilled? So we can really actually
see that what God says about the hardness hard the
way of the wicked is hard. And when God says,
if you do this, then this is the outcome. If
you do that, then that is the outcome. If you
do this, this is the outcome. And since he has
one hundred percent accuracy rate over all of the millennia
(05:06):
since humans first heard that if you eat of the
fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
you shall surely die. Well, we're Adam and Eve now,
I mean, where's Adam and Eve right now? They're dead
like they're dead, and spiritually they began to die. But God, ha,
But God, through what Euriahs said a little while ago,
(05:30):
we read what he had written through the Gospel, he
bore the penalty so they didn't have to die eternally.
So presumably they're resting in the grave awaiting the command
of God for them to come up, for the earth
to give up, and then he will take his people
to heaven for a thousand years and then inherit the
(05:50):
earth for the rest of eternity. Okay, so I know
I said a lot. Let's go to our lesson number
one for today. It is God's warnings are as certain
as his promises. From the Book Number of Numbers, chapter
twenty three and verse nineteen, we read God is not
a man that he should lie, he has said, and
(06:15):
shall he not do it? Let me read it from
another translation, New English translation. God is not a human
being that he should lie, has he said, and will
he not do it? So when God says something, we
can take that to the bank, because he's one hundred
percent right, one hundred percent of the time, and he's
(06:35):
always telling the truth. And so the word for lie
here we see God is not lying. He's not lying.
He's not like humans who do lie. He's not like
the devil who's the father of lie. So the word
for lie kazav it means to deceive, but it also
means to fail. God doesn't fail. We know he doesn't deceive.
(07:01):
And to prove false, well, God's always true. He's always right.
God's warnings and promises flow from the same unchanging character.
Just as God fulfilled every good word to his people,
according to Joshua, chapter twenty one and verse forty five,
he will fulfill every warning regarding sin. Nothing to see here, folks,
(07:26):
like people think that we can over Sometimes humans believe
that we can. It's almost like when people are ready
to commit a crime, they feel like they're not gonna
do the time. Humans feel like if they can escape
the reality of the law, Like what's supposed to happen,
if I God forbid rob a bank, We think we
can do that with impunity, because maybe one time he
(07:47):
robbed a bank, two times he robbed a bank. But
eventually I wanted to say it a certain way, but
I won't because we're on the air. You're gonna get caught.
I mean, it's just a matter of time. But whether
or not humans catch you, you know, God is always watching.
God is not mocked what a human will sow. That's
what humans will also reap. And so real talk like
(08:11):
divine justice. Isn't God trying to get at us, Like
He's not looking for a way to just be punitive.
It is necessary. It is an expression of his holiness
and his reliability. He is committed to restoring love as
the overarching principle and pervasive principle everywhere in the universe.
(08:36):
And sin is in the way. He has to destroy
sin full stop. And so your actions step forward today
and mind is to reflect on one biblical warning that
God speaks to your life. Lets its certainty lead you
to deeper surrender and obedience. I'm going to give you
(08:57):
the other two lessons quickly. Lesson number two is sin
cannot be excused. Its consequences are real. God doesn't turn
a blind eye. He doesn't say, because I love you,
I'm going to act like you didn't. Because he loves you,
he gave you, he gave me Jesus Christ. Jesus died
the death that we deserve so we can live the
(09:18):
life that he deserves. So God is not excusing sin.
He's not sweeping it under the rug like some church
people do in committee meetings and acting like so that
it can become some political football to kick around. No.
Lesson number three. As we close, God's justice and love
meet fully in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Make it
(09:41):
a great day. Peace.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
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.
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