Latest / Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris / 01 22 2025 A Jealous God
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
- 0:03Speaker 1: much because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy
- 0:07Speaker 1: for today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect
- 0:11Speaker 1: yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to
- 0:15Speaker 1: keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are
- 0:19Speaker 1: going to change all of that. Let's experience God's words
- 0:22Speaker 1: today and receive the power we need to live healthy,
- 0:26Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
- 0:31Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
- 0:33Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, good morning. It is Wednesday, January
- 0:36Speaker 2: twenty two, twenty twenty four. Nope, I keep getting that wrong,
- 0:41Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Hello. My name is Elle David Harris.
- 0:44Speaker 2: I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion
- 0:47Speaker 2: where we give you God's word every single day, and
- 0:50Speaker 2: today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson
- 0:53Speaker 2: study series, God's Love and Justice, and our caption for
- 0:57Speaker 2: today is a question a jealous God. Let me ask
- 1:02Speaker 2: you the question again, is God jealous? What is that about?
- 1:06Speaker 2: We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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- 1:43Speaker 2: This is one of the ways that we continue to
- 1:46Speaker 2: build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and
- 1:51Speaker 2: then we will get underway. Father and Heaven. Thank you
- 1:54Speaker 2: for this day and giving us the opportunity to serve
- 1:58Speaker 2: you and to do your will. Thank You for loving
- 2:00Speaker 2: us and protecting us. Thank you for being jealous over us,
- 2:04Speaker 2: least teach us how to live according to your principles.
- 2:09Speaker 2: Today in Jesus' name, I pray Amen and a man
- 2:14Speaker 2: again a jealous God. There is so much to say
- 2:19Speaker 2: that we will not be able to cover. I just
- 2:21Speaker 2: need to say that to you, but I'm trying to
- 2:25Speaker 2: oversimplify it because I know that we can get caught
- 2:28Speaker 2: up in the weeds and we can actually become misled
- 2:33Speaker 2: by simply studying what the Greek and the Hebrews say
- 2:38Speaker 2: about the terminologies, because we'll find passages where the terminologies collide,
- 2:45Speaker 2: like where the jealousy where God is concerned, the same
- 2:50Speaker 2: word may be used in another place where jealousy from
- 2:54Speaker 2: humans is concerned, and then we get confused. Okay, so
- 2:58Speaker 2: let's not go too far into that. This is it
- 3:00Speaker 2: simply God's jealousy glorifies him and benefits you. So in
- 3:08Speaker 2: whatever version of the or whatever language your Bible is in,
- 3:12Speaker 2: that's what I'm trying to say. Whatever language your Bible
- 3:16Speaker 2: is in, you speak English, you speak Spanish, you speak Dutch,
- 3:20Speaker 2: you speak Korean, the jealousy of God glorifies him and
- 3:29Speaker 2: it benefits you. Human envy or jealousy, you see, that's
- 3:37Speaker 2: a whole different discussion. But human envy and jealousy dishonors
- 3:43Speaker 2: God and doesn't benefit anybody, not for real. The benefits
- 3:49Speaker 2: that people who are unholy envy or unholy jealous those
- 3:54Speaker 2: benefits are fleeting like they expire, you understand. And so
- 3:58Speaker 2: God's jealousy glorifies him and benefits you. Human envy dishonors
- 4:04Speaker 2: God and benefits absolutely nobody. All right, And so let's
- 4:10Speaker 2: go into the Bible my favorite one. My favorite one
- 4:15Speaker 2: is from the book of Exodus. It's in Exodus a
- 4:18Speaker 2: couple of times, but let's go with the one in Exodus,
- 4:21Speaker 2: chapter thirty four and verse fourteen, where the Bible reads,
- 4:25Speaker 2: for thou shalt worship no other God. So God is
- 4:29Speaker 2: speaking to his people, and he is giving them the
- 4:32Speaker 2: invitation to worship him, and that worship brings us into
- 4:37Speaker 2: an experience with God that transforms our lives, so we
- 4:41Speaker 2: can be just like Him, so that we can have
- 4:44Speaker 2: the kind of relationship that extends throughout eternity. You see,
- 4:49Speaker 2: there's no more death, dying, pain, there's nothing that separates
- 4:53Speaker 2: us from God. Like love is the divine and holy
- 4:57Speaker 2: chord that is connecting a to God forever. Like this
- 5:02Speaker 2: is one of the benefits of worship. So thou shalt
- 5:07Speaker 2: worshiping God into the exclusion of anything and anyone else. Okay,
- 5:12Speaker 2: For thou shalt worship no other God for the Lord.
- 5:16Speaker 2: I wish I had the time to drill into the
- 5:19Speaker 2: name that is invoked here, for the name of for
- 5:23Speaker 2: the Lord, excuse me, whose name is jealous, is a
- 5:28Speaker 2: jealous God. So God is giving us the guidelines here,
- 5:33Speaker 2: He's giving us the guidelines. He's saying that our relationship
- 5:38Speaker 2: cannot have other people in it. When I say other people,
- 5:42Speaker 2: I'm saying, just imagine your relationship with your spouse, a
- 5:46Speaker 2: healthy one. I'm saying, a healthy one. Ah, So there
- 5:50Speaker 2: are there is no room for a third party. If
- 5:55Speaker 2: you're a man and you're married to your wife. That
- 5:58Speaker 2: sounded weird. Married to your wife. Of course you're married
- 6:01Speaker 2: to your wife, other wise she wouldn't be your wife. Right.
- 6:03Speaker 2: So I'm married to Simone. There is no room for
- 6:07Speaker 2: Simone to dot Oh, there is no room for another Simone.
- 6:13Speaker 2: There is no room for another woman of romantic interest
- 6:18Speaker 2: in our marriage. Why because God has sealed our marriage,
- 6:23Speaker 2: and this relationship is to reflect the kind of relationship
- 6:28Speaker 2: that Jesus has with his people, Jesus has with the church.
- 6:32Speaker 2: So no other gods in that relationship with the God
- 6:38Speaker 2: who created us, No other woman of romantic interest in
- 6:44Speaker 2: the relationship between myself and my dear wife, Simone of
- 6:49Speaker 2: twenty three great years, you understand. And so God is
- 6:53Speaker 2: giving us what this is. And so this verse highlights
- 6:57Speaker 2: God's jealousy as stemming from his desire for exclusive relationship
- 7:03Speaker 2: and worship and devotion to him rooted in his protective love.
- 7:08Speaker 2: I need you to get this point. His protective love
- 7:13Speaker 2: for his people. See envy and human jealousy is not
- 7:19Speaker 2: protective of anything of value you see okay? In James
- 7:24Speaker 2: Chapter three, verse fourteen. Beginning at verse fourteen the Bible,
- 7:28Speaker 2: the Bible reads, but if you have bitter jealousy and
- 7:31Speaker 2: selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and tell
- 7:36Speaker 2: lies against the truth. This is not wisdom that comes
- 7:39Speaker 2: down from above. It is earthly natural demonic. For where
- 7:45Speaker 2: there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there is disorder and
- 7:51Speaker 2: every evil practice. I'm thinking that should be clear enough.
- 7:55Speaker 2: Can I just read it one more time? I don't
- 7:57Speaker 2: really need to explain this too much. It says, but
- 7:59Speaker 2: if you have bitter jealousy, obviously that's human and selfish
- 8:04Speaker 2: ambition in your heart, do not boast and tell lies
- 8:07Speaker 2: against the truth. This is not wisdom that comes down
- 8:10Speaker 2: from above, but is earthly natural demonic. But for where
- 8:15Speaker 2: there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there is disorder and
- 8:21Speaker 2: every evil practice. That is an obvious contrast between earthly
- 8:29Speaker 2: envy and jealousy and what God is. Who God is
- 8:33Speaker 2: as the jealous God. That is saying I am protecting you.
- 8:38Speaker 2: You see, with God's jealousy we are if God forbid.
- 8:44Speaker 2: He is protective of what he's due, what is supposed
- 8:48Speaker 2: to be for him. So what is do and what
- 8:51Speaker 2: is to be for him? Because he created us and
- 8:54Speaker 2: he redeemed us through Jesus's blood, Yes, that means that
- 9:00Speaker 2: he has positioned us so that our love should be
- 9:04Speaker 2: exclusive for him. The kind of love that he desires
- 9:09Speaker 2: from us is exclusive love. But envy is actually covetous.
- 9:16Speaker 2: It is trying to get what it does not deserve.
- 9:20Speaker 2: It is an extreme misuse of what people think they're do.
- 9:29Speaker 2: Some people are envious of other people's things, other people's relationships,
- 9:33Speaker 2: other people spouses, etc. So God's jealousy, remember, glorifies him
- 9:40Speaker 2: and benefits you. Human jealousy doesn't do any of that.
- 9:45Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot
- 9:48Speaker 1: live by bread alone, but by every word that comes
- 9:51Speaker 1: from the mouth of God. This has been your daily
- 9:54Speaker 1: portion with el David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah,