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 manner the word of God to keep
us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all
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 L. David Harris. Good morning, good morning, Good morning.
It is Friday, July twenty one, two twenty three. Hello, my
name is L. 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 through the Book of
Ephesians with the caption the Glory Song, or maybe I'll just say glory Song,
Glory Song. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
I'd like to say welcome to you and say happy Preparation day. I know
that we have gone through quite a week. I don't care where you are
in the world. I'm sure there have been some challenges some temptations, maybe
even trials. But we are here today to worship the Lord in the beauty
of holiness and to experience this time of preparation, looking forward to the holiness
of the hours that are approaching. Yes, the Sabbath is coming and God
is preparing our hearts. Hopefully we are not just looking to clean our houses
and so forth, but more so being prepared in our hearts to meet God
in a special way during the Sabbath hours. I'd like you to go over
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us. And yeah, so before I pray, I just want to say
again, Happy preparation day. Let's pray, Father in Heaven, thank you
for giving us this new day and for the blessing that you have given us
thus far through this blessed Book of Ephesians. Please now give us your Holy
Spirit, help us to see an experience as much as we can of the
Glory today in Jesus name. I pray Amen and Amen again. Okay,
So him comes to mind when I think of this caption, and it's titled
the Glory Song, right and it is when all my labors and trials are
roar and I am safe on that beautiful shore, just to be near the
Lord I adore. Will through the ages be glory for me. And then
we sing, Oh, that will be glory for me, Glory for me,
Glory for me. When by his grace, I shall look on his
face, that will be glory, be glory for me. See, when
you're talking about the about seeing the face of God, you have to just
pause right when by his grace I shall look on his face. You see,
Jesus said to Moses. And I know, I said Jesus. Jesus
said to Moses, there shall no man see me and live. And so
when we have the privilege to have gone through the entire plan of salvation practically,
and now we are living in the actual visible presence of God, it
will have been only by his grace. Now I'm saying that now because I
promised a couple of times that I would read a quote to you from the
book Desire of Ages, pages nineteen and twenty. But I failed you.
I apologize. But I'm reading it now and it reads by coming to dwell
with us. See, this is the condescension of Christ. Jesus was to
reveal God both to men or humans and angels. Can we just pause here
for a moment. When Jesus came to dwell with us like he became as
a human being in order to save us from our sins. Yeah, it
wasn't only to save us from our sins, which was miraculous, which was
glorious, like which was amazing. But even angels needed to understand more about
the glory of God. They needed to understand and experience more of the character
of God. And there for the golden threat of love, and that pulse
that will go throughout the universe is inextricably attached to what Jesus did by coming
here to dwell among us, to give his life a ransom for many to
be raised. Incorruptible, of course, incorruptible with healing in his wings,
with the keys of hell and the grave and death in his hands. And
one day we will see him seated firmly upon his throne as King of kings
and Lord of lords. Blessed be his name. And it will have been
done because God loves us, and clearly he loves angels. Amazing. Let
me continue the quote, but not alone for his earthborn children. Was this
revelation given? Our little world is a lesson book for the universe. So
now we know it's for humanity. We also know it is or angels and
then the unfallen worlds, the unfallen universe. Yes, God's wonderful purpose.
Continuing the quote of grace, the mystery of redeeming love is the theme into
which quote straight out of the Bible. Angels desire to look, and it
will be their study throughout endless ages. Amazing. Let me continue, Both
the redeemed and the unfallen beings will find in the Cross of Christ, the
science and their song. It will be seen that the glory there's that word
again, shining in the face of Jesus, is the glory of self sacrificing
love. That is the end of the quote. I did not want to
rush through it. I did not want to add it to the end of
you know yesterday or when's day. It will be a manifestation of the glory
of self sacrificing love. So many people throw around this term love. I
love spaghetti, I love my car, I love going to Tahiti, right,
I love what you do for me. Toyota when I was young,
that was toyota commercial. But God is saying the kind of love that is
of a biblical nature, of a godly sort, godly character. It's the
kind that is fully self sacrificing, leaving nothing for self and yielding all for
the purposes of God. Amazing. This is why glory song is so important.
We will sing, we will experience, we will study throughout the ages
the glory of God that comes through what Jesus did in order to save us
from our sins and to manifest the love of God throughout the universe. Now,
there are six principles that we will discuss thus far from or have really
discussed thus far in the Book of Ephesians. Will just barely touch them this
morning, but I want you to keep them in mind as we go into
the Sabbath hours. Number one, God's choice of the people before the foundation
of the world. Remember we're talking about self sacrificing love and seeing and experience.
They experiencing the glory of God by his grace. So he chose you
fill in your name here. He chose you from before the world was from
before there was a beginning. He knew you well. He knew that You
may be a prophet among to the nations. You may be a coach to
people who need assistance. You may be a minister of the gospel, a
doctor, a lawyer, someone who offers janitorial services. Whatever your vocation would
be, whatever your ministry pursuits might be, God has chosen you from before
there was a beginning in order to lead other people to Christ. Let me
keep going their past lost existence. God redeemed you from your past. Yes,
intervention number three of God in Christ to save them. Of course,
Jesus is the way that we are saved. Through Him, we are saved.
Number four. Their acceptance of the Gospel. He's not going to force
us. We need to accept by his grace the Gospel. Number five the
present lives of the addresses. Of the addresses as disciples. God has called
us to be his children and will come back to this principle another 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 l David Harris. Make it a
great day.