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, and happy Sabbath. It is Sabbath, May eighteen, twenty twenty
four. 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
the Great Controversy. Our caption for today is Light from the Sanctuary. Light
from the Sanctuary. Let me just say that this is one of my favorite
favorite favorite subjects in the scripture, and so we're gonna get into that.
We're at lesson number eight of thirteen in this series, and before we do,
I'd like to just say welcome to everyone joining us. Especially those joining
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your Daily Portion dot com. This is a way that we continue to build
faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray and then get underway. Father
and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day, this brand new
Sabbath morning, and for the privilege that we have to come together and to
experience you in your word. Father, Please let us see and experience the
light from the sanctuary and be transformed and welcome other people to the same light.
In Jesus name, I pray Amen and a men again for this coming
week. Of course, we're in Sabbath, but beginning tomorrow, I decided
that I would put a key point at the beginning of each of our discussions,
a key point, something that we must not miss. And so for
me for today's study, Jesus welcomes us into the purity, No, into
the light of purity and wholeness. Let me say it again, Jesus welcomes
us into the light of purity and wholeness. Let's go ahead and begin by
reading from the Book of Hebrews. That's the Book of Hebrews, chapter eight,
and we'll read verses one and two. This is what the Bible says.
Now, this is the main point of the things we are saying.
And let me just say in the Book of Hebrews, there are some beautiful,
full, and yet complex things being taught there. Many of us believe
that Paul is the writer. And even Peter said, there are some things
that Paul writes, man that are hard to be understood. Right, So
even the inspired writers themselves can recognize when some people are a little more complex
than others. And so it makes sense as a good teacher. Now Paul
is slowing down. He's saying, I've set a lot up until now.
But here is the main point about what we're saying. We have such a
high priest. Who is the high priest that's referencing. We're referencing here.
We have such a high priest. This is Jesus Christ, okay, who
is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens.
And I wrote in my lesson in big red bold letters with this here
pen right, what a blessing. Exclamation point what a blessed saying, why
is this a blessing? Because our High Priest is empathetic. Jesus Christ,
having lived as a human for thirty three and one half years, is empathetic.
He knows what we go through. He knows when we're tired, what
it feels like to be tired. He knows what it's like to be hungry.
He knows what it's like to be thirsty. He knows what it's like
to have so many things to do in the day that he has to go
into a solitary place and pray, talk to God, his father, so
that he could have the energy that he needed to go in to feed the
millions of people by extension, of course, not in reality, but by
extension through the individuals that he would minister to all of the hosts of people
that would be edified. Like he understood fully what it was like to need
compassion when his friends wouldn't pray for him in the garden of Getsemine, when
he was kneeling and speaking, I'm imagining that's what it was, and speak
to God and his Father and was sweating as it were great drops of blood,
like while he was on the cross, and he said, my God,
my God, why have you forsaken me? Like he knows what it's
like to be human. In fact, the Bible says in another place,
in the chapter prior in Hebrews, that Jesus was in all points tempted like
as we are. And yet and yet he never sinned, not even in
the least particular. And so the lust of the flesh that Paul talks,
that John talks about, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the
eyes, the pride of life, Jesus experienced temptation in those key areas.
If we look at the sequence of those temptations in the wilderness as recorded in
the Book of Luke, we'll see it's in that same order, lust of
the flesh, lust of the eyes, pride of life. He experienced temptation,
and yet he did not sin. This is the kind of high priest
that we have, who is well acquainted with the feeling of our infirmities.
Okay, and so we have such a high priest. I think I've painted
at least a little bit of a good picture, an empathetic a high priest
who is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty of the
heavens. He's seated firmly at the right hand of power. If you study
Revelation chapters four and five, you will see that in chapter four, Jesus
is there the Father, the Father. The Father is the one being outwardly
worshiped by all of the different categories of creatures that are there. Yes,
and then at just the right time, we get our worship to a pitch
where Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, the lion of the Mighty,
lion of the tribe of Judah, who's coming from the midst of the three.
In chapter five, we see him now as being worshiped. Why because
he was slain, because he gave his life for you, because he gave
his life for me, having been equal with God, his father, right
before he took on human form, equal with God as father. In Michael
chapter five, the Bible says that Messiah, basically Messiah, is from eternity
past. So Jesus, being equal to God our Father, took on human
form for thirty three and one half years. He lived a life down here
in the kind of power, being fully surrendered to his Father, so that
now with his empathetic self, with all of the power that he received at
his resurrection hah, all of the keys of hell, grave and death in
his hands. Now he is seated, and he is worthy of worship,
as you see in Revelation chapter five ave and Hebrews chapter one, worthy of
worship in the Majesty in the heavens. Someone worthy of worship who is empathetic
toward us is advocating for us. I'm going to talk about that in detail
in the next couple of days. If the Lord spaars life a minister,
this is Jesus of the sanctuary and of the true Tabernacle. We're going to
drill the true Tabernacle in a way. I'm not saying that you've never heard,
but I think some of your minds are already going a certain track.
But there's more than what we say customarily, but a minister of the sanctuary
and of the true Tabernacle, which the Lord erected and not man. This
is in contrast to where God came to Moses and said, have them make
me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them. Right in addition to that,
now he's talking about the true Tabernacle. Nah, that place we call
the Heavenly Sanctuary to include the Holy of Holies. I wish I had the
time, but I don't today. But we're going to talk about how much
of a blessing it is that Jesus Christ, being that empathetic and powerful Savior,
is now representing us. Oh my, he's representing us in heavenly places
to the degree that we will no longer need to fall down and keep tripping
and falling over ourselves in sin. We can be victorious like we can live
godly in Christ Jesus in this present world. And Jesus is well able to
keep us from falling and to present us faultless before the Power with exceeding joy,
before the Presence, with exceeding joy. And so we're going to talk
about that light, that light that is coming from the sanctuary. 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,