Latest / Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris / 07 17 2024 Sandwich Story, Part 1

Transcript

07 17 2024 Sandwich Story, Part 1 · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

• 0:01
  Most of us eat every day, some of us too much because yesterday's food
• 0:06
  is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some
• 0:10
  of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep
• 0:15
  us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all
• 0:20
  of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to
• 0:25
  live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host,
• 0:31
  author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, good morning, Good morning.
• 0:34
  It is Wednesday, July seventeen, twenty twenty four. Hello, my
• 0:39
  name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
• 0:42
  Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is
• 0:46
  no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series through the Book of
• 0:51
  Mark, and our caption for today is Sandwich Story Part one. Now it's
• 0:56
  not about food. It's not about food. Sandwich Story or Part one.
• 1:00
  We'll get into that in just a moment, but first i'd like to say
• 1:03
  welcome to you and ask you to go over to your Daily Portion dot com.
• 1:07
  Please join our online community, pick up the Your Daily Portion book and
• 1:11
  let us know where you are in the world at your daily portion dot com.
• 1:15
  This is one of the ways that we continue to build faith and fellowship.
• 1:22
  Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underwagh Father and
• 1:26
  Heaven. Thank you for giving us this new day and for getting us so
• 1:29
  far into our work week and whatever else we do. Father, please give
• 1:33
  us understanding and not just understanding, help us to be so connected with you
• 1:38
  that we will stop at nothing to defend the faith. We will stop at
• 1:42
  nothing, Ah, to yield our will to you and to assist people into
• 1:47
  the kingdom. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and Amen again.
• 1:52
  Sandwich story part part one. Now the sandwich that so it don't make a
• 1:57
  little bit of sense to you, it's right here in the lesson. The
• 2:00
  lesson writer says this passage is the first quote sandwich story in mark where one
• 2:06
  story is begun and then is interrupted by another story, with the first story
• 2:12
  completing only afterward. And so that's the sandwich concept that the lesson writer wants
• 2:16
  to highlight. Okay, if you're wondering where does the sandwich mean, that's
• 2:21
  what it means. Okay, So let's go ahead and jump in jump into
• 2:23
  the Bible Book of Mark, chapter three, and I will read quickly,
• 2:28
  beginning at verse twenty, and see what we can do at the time that
• 2:31
  we have left. Okay, and the Bible reads, and the multitude cometh
• 2:36
  together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread. And
• 2:42
  when his friends heard it, they went to lay hold on him, for
• 2:49
  they said, he is beside himself. In the scribes which came down from
• 2:53
  Jerusalem said he hath beelz above, and the prince of devils, he casts
• 2:59
  it out devils. And he called them unto him, and said unto them
• 3:04
  in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan? And if the kingdom be
• 3:08
  divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house be divided
• 3:14
  against itself, that house cannot stand. And if Satan rise up against himself
• 3:19
  and be divided, he cannot stand. But hath an end. No man
• 3:23
  can enter into a strong man's house and spoil his goods, except he will
• 3:29
  first bind the strong man, and then he will spoil his house. Verily,
• 3:34
  I say unto you. Wait a minute, let me pause right here.
• 3:38
  He's about to transition, So listen, listen. Here's the bottom lie.
• 3:43
  There are people who hate God so much that they are willing to lie
• 3:47
  and lie about God and lie on God. Yeah, there are some people
• 3:53
  who hate God so much that they are willing to lie about God and lie
• 3:59
  on God. And Jesus is calling their lives out. He knows that they
• 4:06
  know good and well deep in their heart, that they know what they're encountering
• 4:12
  when they're in this presence. He knows that they are willingly ignorant. He
• 4:16
  knows that they are supposed to be the leaders of the people, the people
• 4:20
  who are to be experts of the book or the scrolls, and they are
• 4:27
  willingly ignorant. And so Jesus now begins to transition and say, come on,
• 4:32
  now, you know I'm not from the devil, because like I'm casting
• 4:35
  out devils. That doesn't even make sense. Okay, So y'all need to
• 4:39
  be honest. And he says verse twenty eight. Verily, I say,
• 4:42
  unto you all sins, how many sins, brothers and sisters, All sins
• 4:47
  shall be forgiven unto the sons of men. That means all of us humans,
• 4:51
  men, women, boys, and girls. All sins shall be forgiven
• 4:58
  unto the sons of men, and blasphemies, wherewithsoever they shall blaspheme. But
• 5:03
  he that blasphemeth against the Holy Ghost shall never have forgiveness, but is in
• 5:10
  danger of eternal damnation, because they said that he had an unclean spirit.
• 5:15
  And they make and then they came to his brethren and his mother, and
• 5:18
  standing out sent unto him, calling, and the multitude sat about him that
• 5:25
  sat about him, and said, unto him, behold your mother and your
• 5:28
  brethren without or the people outside they seek for thee. And he answered and
• 5:32
  said, unto them, who is my mother or my brethren. And they
• 5:34
  looked around on them that sat around him, and said, behold thy mother,
• 5:40
  like right there. And he said, behold my mother and my brethren.
• 5:45
  For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same as my mother
• 5:48
  and sister and my brother. Okay, I read a lot, I read
• 5:54
  a lot. Okay. Jesus taught his people that while they were saying something
• 6:00
  simple, He's always finding a way to make it clear to people what this
• 6:04
  relationship with God looks like, that whoever does God's will are the family of
• 6:12
  God. We receive the adoption that comes through Christ, so we become a
• 6:16
  part of the family of God those who receive him. To them, he
• 6:20
  gave power to become the children of God, to those who call upon his
• 6:25
  name, who are in agreement with what his name stands for. Okay,
• 6:30
  but now we have to deal with this sin challenge. Right in the middle
• 6:33
  of this discussion, Jesus says that all sins can be forgiven of humans and
• 6:40
  blasphemies except the sin against the Holy Ghost. Well, what does that mean?
• 6:46
  What is it? Is it a sin to wear black shoes and that's
• 6:50
  the unpardonable sin. Is it a sin to look up into the left or
• 6:55
  look down into the right? Is that the sin that breaks the camel,
• 7:00
  draw that breaks the camel's back. Is it some particular sin that we see
• 7:03
  outlined in scripture and we go find that one and we circle it, embolden
• 7:06
  it and put it in red letters and highlight it and say, this is
• 7:11
  the one that you avoid at all costs. But the other ones God can
• 7:16
  forgive you, but he doesn't have the power to do this one. Is
• 7:19
  that what we're talking about here? No, No, So let me just
• 7:24
  make this very clear. Under the power of God and his Holy Spirit,
• 7:30
  the only sins that cannot be forgiven are the ones that we don't confess or
• 7:39
  forsake. Let me say that again very clearly for those in the back.
• 7:45
  The only sins that cannot be forgiven are those that we do not confess.
• 7:49
  That is to be in agreement with God. Holiness is agreement with God.
• 7:56
  The ones we don't confess and the ones we don't turn away from. And
• 8:01
  you're like, but that's not what Jesus said. Oh, yes he did,
• 8:03
  because he said, if you confess your sins, he's faithful and just
• 8:07
  to forgive you of your sins and to cleanse you from all unrighteousness. In
• 8:09
  First John, chapter one and verse nine. In Romans chapter two and verse
• 8:13
  four, the Bible teaches us that repentance, or the godly sorrow for sin
• 8:18
  and the ability to turn from sin is a gift from God. The only
• 8:22
  way that a person won't be forgiven is if they don't confess and forsake.
• 8:31
  Well, you have to ask the question, what is it that makes it
• 8:35
  possible for us to confess and forsake? Oh, I'm so glad you asked.
• 8:41
  Yeah, the Holy Spirit. In John chapter sixteen, the Bible teaches
• 8:45
  us, howbit when he the spirit of God, the Holy Spirit the spirit
• 8:50
  of truth cometh. He guides you into all truth. He's the one that
• 8:54
  gives you. He gives us the ability to hear and know. Wait a
• 8:58
  minute, I'm on the wrong path. I need to confess my sins.
• 9:03
  I need to forsake and turn away from my sins. And so those who
• 9:09
  have hardened our hearts, God forbid to the point that we can no longer
• 9:13
  hear the voice of the Holy Ghost, and we are no longer receptive to
• 9:18
  His power to confess and forsake. Are now in a position, are now
• 9:24
  in the position not to hear the voice of God and not to confess or
• 9:31
  forsake our sins. And so I thank God. I thank God that he
• 9:37
  has positioned us that all we need to do is be receptive to His Holy
• 9:41
  Spirit, and we can confess and forsake and be in right relationship. Thanks
• 9:45
  for joining us listening to friends. Always remember we cannot live by bread alone,
• 9:50
  but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. This has
• 9:52
  been your daily portion with el David Harris, make it a great day. Yeah,