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. Good morning, good morning, Good morning.
It is Sabbath, October twenty one, twenty twenty three. Hello,
my name is Elle 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 now with Lesson number
four. The the series God's Mission, My mission and our caption for today
is sharing God's Mission. Can I just give God thanks for just a moment?
I seldom look back, And You're like, Dave, what do you
mean by look back? Like? People say, how many of this have
you done? How many books have you published? How many times have you
done X? And I'm like, I don't keep track of that kind of
stuff real talk, but I look back. I took the time to look
back on this Your Daily Portion program. Just the Your Daily Portion program.
We are at like episode sixteen hundred and something. We're pushing seventeen hundred episodes.
That means every single day, just with Your Daily Portion, God has
given us the strength to come every single day to give God's word. And
before that on another program, thousands more episodes, thousands more days. What
does that mean? God is so good? Well, how good is he?
He's so good that if we will just dedicate ourselves, brothers and sisters.
You can see it here. If you will just dedicate yourself to God's
mission, he will strengthen you and He will give you what you need in
order to accomplish the mission. Where you are, whatever it is. You
may not be into radios, televisions, microphones and all that kind of stuff.
But whatever God has called you to do, I implore you to trust
him and he will do it for you. Come what may. Let's go
ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank
you for giving us this new Sabbath and the privilege to share in your mission.
Help us to do just that. Share in your mission and not create
one for ourselves. In Jesus' name, I pray Amen and Amen again.
Sharing God's mission. Now, I was thinking about this one heavily. God
demonstrated his mission. I said, God demonstrated his mission. So he's given
us the blueprint. He demonstrated his mission by sending his son. Right.
So when we're sharing in God's mission, we have to think, okay,
well, where does Jesus come into this equation? What is my part in
this mission? Right? So now we can see how God moves because he
loved the world so much that he gave us his only begotten son. Yes,
the Bible teaches us him being the only begotten, he's the one of
a kind son like he is unusual, he is one hundred percent God,
he's one hundred percent human. And all of this mystery of Godliness was wound
up together, all of heaven in one gift in order to lead us into
a right relationship with him. So, if we're sharing in God's mission like
that is our perspective. Whatever we need to do, whatever sacrifice we need
to make, whatever we need to yield, that is all for the mission.
We'll come back to that in just a moment. Let's read now,
beginning in the Book of John. The Book of John, chapter thirteen.
Will begin reading at verse thirty four John, chapter thirteen, and I will
read, beginning at verse thirty four. Something very interesting here. A new
commandment I give to you. This is Jesus speaking that you love one another.
And I'm thinking, well, why did Jesus call that commandment new?
I'm coming back to that as I have loved you. This is something that
I missed before, that you also love one another. And you're like,
Dave, it's right there, what do you mean by you missed it before?
Jesus loves us? Right? Okay, yeah, you keep that thought
for a moment. Continuing by this, all will know that you are my
disciples if you have love one for another. And so at first I'm thinking,
well, why in the world did Jesus say this is a new commandment?
And many times I have rehearsed and taught and it is true indeed,
but I still missed something that the reason Jesus said this this is a new
commandment is because it's because like the people really didn't love like Jesus love like
the people did not. The people did not come up to the standard,
and so to the people it was new. And I thought, wow,
that's an amazing thought. Well that's true, but there is more right as
I I underscored this in my lesson and read as I have loved you,
this is a standard, this is a measure, This is a metric,
so to speak to let us know what kind or what brand of love this
is. And I wrote in my notes the world has never underscore, underscore,
underscore, seen this kind of love before. Why not? Because Jesus
wasn't the Messiah in our eyes yet the world had not seen him born of
a woman prophesied the word prophesiede of this. But when we actually truly saw
Jesus Christ born into human flesh, being one hundred percent God the Sun,
and then taking on humanity after four thousand years of degradation, we've never seen.
For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son,
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. We had
never seen this brand of love before. So when he says loves as I
have loved, see, the Bible does teach in Leviticus chapter nineteen. We
often go into the New Testament for this, But nineteen verse eighteen, thou
shalt not avenge nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, But
thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. I am the Lord. So this
is not new intellectually, it's not new principally. But in practical terms,
we are seeing something we have never seen before. But let me tell you
what the Seven day Aventist Bible commentary says. The command was new in that
the demonstration had been given of love, which the disciples were now bidden to
emulate. By his revelation of his father's character, Jesus had opened to humans
or men, a new concept of God's love. This is a new revelation
of God's character. Brothers and sisters. The new command and joined men to
preserve the same relationship with one another that Jesus cultivated with them and mankind generally.
Where the old commandment enjoined men to love their neighbors as theirselves, the
new commandment urged them to love as Jesus had loved. We've never seen this
before until Jesus was manifest in the flesh right. The new was in fact
more difficult than the old but great, for this accomplishment was freely provided.
We had never seen God in the flesh smitten by people he was saving.
We never saw God in the flesh giving his life a ransom for many.
We had never seen where people who were supposed to love him rejected him.
We've never seen this brand of love God coming into human flesh to save his
people from our sins. And so when God says to love as I have
loved you, now we're taking it to a new level. But it's not
for us to try to do it in our own strength. From the start,
as the lesson writer says in these closing moments here, Abraham wanted to
be used by God for mission. This truth can be seen, for example,
in Genesis chapter eighteen, when God warned him about what was going to
happen to Sodom and Gomorrah. Surely, the Bible teaches us, the Lord
does nothing, and I'll say important, except he reveal it first, or
this secret unto his servants the prophets. That's from the Book of Amos,
chapter three and verse seven. And in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah,
his servant God's servant was Abraham. Was Abraham. So the Father, God,
our Father, sent Jesus the Son to save the world from destruction.
Old Abe, like Abraham, was a microcosm of that. He was a
symbol or a type of that, because God gave him, Abraham the opportunity
to intervene, intercede to keep the people from being destroyed in Sodom and Gomorrah.
Long story we'll get into as the days come on. Every wonderful day,
Peace. 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,