Latest / Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris / 01 31 2025 Mercy

Transcript

01 31 2025 Mercy · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much,
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going
• 0:19
  Speaker 1: to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives.
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker,
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: Elle David Harris.
• 0:33
  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It is Friday, January
• 0:36
  Speaker 2: thirty one, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
• 0:42
  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day,
• 0:46
  Speaker 2: and today is no exception. We are continuing in our
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: lesson study series, God's Love and Justice. Our caption for
• 0:54
  Speaker 2: today is mercy. Mercy one word, but so much importance. Mercy.
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: Have you ever decerned that you needed mercy. We'll get
• 1:07
  Speaker 2: into that in just a moment, but first I like
• 1:08
  Speaker 2: to say welcome to you and ask you to please
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: go over to your Daily Portion dot com. Please join
• 1:14
  Speaker 2: our online community. Please pick up the Your Daily Portion
• 1:18
  Speaker 2: companion guide for this quarter's lesson. And I have said
• 1:22
  Speaker 2: to you before that this is really a test. It's
• 1:27
  Speaker 2: our second quarter doing it, and if it is successful enough,
• 1:30
  Speaker 2: we'll continue. Otherwise we won't, So just go ahead and
• 1:33
  Speaker 2: pick that up. And also please let us know where
• 1:36
  Speaker 2: you are in the world at your Daily Portion dot com.
• 1:40
  Speaker 2: This is one of the ways that we continue to
• 1:42
  Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and
• 1:47
  Speaker 2: then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, Thank you
• 1:50
  Speaker 2: for giving us this new day and for the opportunity
• 1:53
  Speaker 2: you have given to us to pray. Thank you for
• 1:56
  Speaker 2: giving us mercy that is unmerited. We are thankful that
• 2:00
  Speaker 2: we don't have to try to earn it from you,
• 2:03
  Speaker 2: because we would come up short. Father, Please give us
• 2:06
  Speaker 2: the fullness of your holy spirit today. In Jesus' name,
• 2:10
  Speaker 2: I pray, Amen and a man again. Okay, So I'm
• 2:16
  Speaker 2: going to begin this discussion by reading from the book
• 2:20
  Speaker 2: Patriarchs and Prophets, beginning at page three hundred and twenty
• 2:25
  Speaker 2: four three hundred twenty four, and it reads the Israelites
• 2:29
  Speaker 2: had been guilty of treason and that against the king
• 2:34
  Speaker 2: who loaded them with the benefits and whose authority, they
• 2:40
  Speaker 2: had voluntarily pledged themselves to obey. I want you to remember,
• 2:45
  Speaker 2: this is a time when the people of God, as
• 2:48
  Speaker 2: Moses was on the mount with God in the cloud,
• 2:51
  Speaker 2: and of course the people are saying, whatever the Lord
• 2:55
  Speaker 2: says that we will do. And so there is this
• 2:59
  Speaker 2: interaction now between God and Moses to the people, and
• 3:03
  Speaker 2: from the people to Moses to God. And now in
• 3:07
  Speaker 2: this reality they are saying, God, we promise to do
• 3:11
  Speaker 2: whatever you say. Whatever you say, that's what we're gonna do. Well, okay,
• 3:17
  Speaker 2: it's not working out like these guys. It's not actually funny,
• 3:21
  Speaker 2: but it's it's I'm incredulous, like it's the people created
• 3:24
  Speaker 2: a golden calf for false worship. While they're saying, on
• 3:29
  Speaker 2: the other hand, whatever you say, that's what we're going
• 3:31
  Speaker 2: to do, and so and so we continue they pledge
• 3:34
  Speaker 2: themselves to obey, that the divine government might be maintained,
• 3:39
  Speaker 2: justice might be visited upon the traitors. Yet even more
• 3:45
  Speaker 2: God's mercy was displayed. While he maintained his law. He
• 3:51
  Speaker 2: granted freedom of choice and opportunity for repentance to all,
• 3:58
  Speaker 2: only those who were cut off, who persisted in rebellion.
• 4:05
  Speaker 2: Did you get that only those were cut off who
• 4:08
  Speaker 2: persisted in rebellion. It was necessary that this sin should
• 4:16
  Speaker 2: be punished as a testimony to surrounding nations of God's
• 4:22
  Speaker 2: displeasure against idolatry. By executing justice upon the guilty, Moses,
• 4:29
  Speaker 2: as God's instrument, must leave on record or solemn and
• 4:34
  Speaker 2: public protest against their crime. As the people of God
• 4:39
  Speaker 2: should hereafter condemn the idolatry of the neighboring tribes. Their
• 4:44
  Speaker 2: enemies would throw back upon them the charge that the
• 4:48
  Speaker 2: people who claimed Jehovah as their God made a cold
• 4:53
  Speaker 2: a golden calf and worshiped it at harrip. Okay, so
• 4:57
  Speaker 2: I'm just going to stop there with that reading. Listen, listen,
• 5:01
  Speaker 2: listen very closely. There are people who need to know God.
• 5:07
  Speaker 2: They're all around us. We go to the gym with them,
• 5:10
  Speaker 2: we work with them. Sometimes we are in public transportation
• 5:14
  Speaker 2: with them. Some may even wash our vehicles or something
• 5:18
  Speaker 2: like that. Like, we are interacting with people who need
• 5:22
  Speaker 2: God who do not have a connection with Him every
• 5:24
  Speaker 2: single day. And there is one thing that is detestable.
• 5:31
  Speaker 2: That is hypocrisy. Hypocrisy. And so if on the one hand,
• 5:37
  Speaker 2: I say that I love God, and I am assisting
• 5:40
  Speaker 2: in a particular key area in someone's life. And if
• 5:43
  Speaker 2: they look into my life and see that I am
• 5:45
  Speaker 2: as guilty as they are in the particular sin, then
• 5:49
  Speaker 2: how in the world can I guide them into a
• 5:52
  Speaker 2: relationship with God when I have not even allowed God
• 5:56
  Speaker 2: to transform my life. You see where this is going.
• 5:59
  Speaker 2: And so what God wants us to do is not
• 6:02
  Speaker 2: take his mercy for granted. How many of you know
• 6:06
  Speaker 2: that when God gives us mercy, it is so that
• 6:10
  Speaker 2: we can yield our will to him. It's not so
• 6:12
  Speaker 2: that we can go over and over and over in
• 6:14
  Speaker 2: the same areas that we have turned away from Him.
• 6:18
  Speaker 2: What have I done in disrespect to love for God?
• 6:24
  Speaker 2: In terms of my relationships? Are there ways that I
• 6:27
  Speaker 2: relate to my spouse me and my case my wife?
• 6:31
  Speaker 2: Are there ways that I relate to my son our
• 6:34
  Speaker 2: children that displease God while He's giving us mercy, while
• 6:39
  Speaker 2: He is causing the sun to rise and to set
• 6:43
  Speaker 2: in our lives and giving us food, water, clothing, shelter.
• 6:47
  Speaker 2: Is there anything in my spiritual life, my personal life,
• 6:51
  Speaker 2: my professional life that is saying, you know what, God,
• 6:55
  Speaker 2: I don't really care about your mercy. We need to
• 6:58
  Speaker 2: be honest with this, and let's go for a personal
• 7:01
  Speaker 2: application right out of our Companion Guide. Like I said,
• 7:04
  Speaker 2: get it at your Daily Portion dot Com Page eighty
• 7:08
  Speaker 2: four Personal applica well eighty three personal application. Do w
• 7:13
  Speaker 2: what is important now in our own lives? Balancing justice
• 7:18
  Speaker 2: and mercy can be difficult. We must seek to uphold
• 7:23
  Speaker 2: what is right while being compassionate and forgiving. I internalize
• 7:30
  Speaker 2: the insight. Think about a situation where you feel someone
• 7:36
  Speaker 2: deserves punishment or a consequence. Consider how you can extend
• 7:42
  Speaker 2: mercy while still addressing the issue. Ooh, that's a big one.
• 7:48
  Speaker 2: Reflecting God's approach to justice and mercy. There's something that
• 7:55
  Speaker 2: we say, or they say over in the United States
• 7:58
  Speaker 2: of America. You do the crime, you do the time,
• 8:02
  Speaker 2: And yeah, I agree with that, But there are times
• 8:06
  Speaker 2: that people have done crimes underdue rest. There are times
• 8:10
  Speaker 2: that people have committed wrongdoings because they were in some
• 8:14
  Speaker 2: way pressed in a way that we don't yet understand.
• 8:17
  Speaker 2: And I'm not saying it's an excuse, but it is
• 8:20
  Speaker 2: a reason. And so when we do see that justice
• 8:24
  Speaker 2: must be meeted out. There are people that God has
• 8:27
  Speaker 2: placed on planet Earth. Are you one of those people,
• 8:30
  Speaker 2: people that God has placed on planet Earth to help
• 8:33
  Speaker 2: those who are rightfully serving for the punishment for the
• 8:40
  Speaker 2: crimes that they have committed. They're people who reach out
• 8:44
  Speaker 2: in mercy, people who give them things that they need
• 8:49
  Speaker 2: even though they're doing their time. Like people don't cease
• 8:52
  Speaker 2: being human when they have to do the time for
• 8:56
  Speaker 2: the crime. We have to have compassion and mercy. We
• 9:00
  Speaker 2: have to see them as God's created children. I wish
• 9:05
  Speaker 2: I had the time and let's go with n The
• 9:07
  Speaker 2: next best move this week practice showing mercy in a
• 9:11
  Speaker 2: situation where you would normally be strict. Whether it's with yourself,
• 9:16
  Speaker 2: did you get that part with yourself or others? Choose
• 9:20
  Speaker 2: to focus on grace and understanding, allowing room for growth
• 9:26
  Speaker 2: and repentance. It is true all of us need mercy.
• 9:31
  Speaker 2: It is true that there are things that we do
• 9:33
  Speaker 2: sometimes that require consequences. But the truth beyond that is
• 9:38
  Speaker 2: God is full of mercy, and therefore we also need
• 9:43
  Speaker 2: to be merciful. Peace.
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
• 9:51
  Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: portion with el David Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,