1 00:00:01,159 --> 00:00:05,519 Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, because yesterday's 2 00:00:05,599 --> 00:00:10,400 food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do 3 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:15,359 some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manner the word of God to keep 4 00:00:15,439 --> 00:00:20,079 us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all 5 00:00:20,199 --> 00:00:25,399 that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to live 6 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:31,320 healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, author 7 00:00:31,399 --> 00:00:34,759 speaker L. David Harris. Good morning, good morning, Good morning. 8 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:39,840 It is Friday, July twenty one, two twenty three. Hello, my 9 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:42,439 name is L. David Harris. I am your host, and this is 10 00:00:42,479 --> 00:00:46,719 your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today 11 00:00:46,840 --> 00:00:51,359 is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson study through the Book of 12 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:57,479 Ephesians with the caption the Glory Song, or maybe I'll just say glory Song, 13 00:00:58,079 --> 00:01:00,880 Glory Song. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first 14 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:04,640 I'd like to say welcome to you and say happy Preparation day. I know 15 00:01:04,760 --> 00:01:10,000 that we have gone through quite a week. I don't care where you are 16 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:14,760 in the world. I'm sure there have been some challenges some temptations, maybe 17 00:01:14,840 --> 00:01:19,879 even trials. But we are here today to worship the Lord in the beauty 18 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:26,200 of holiness and to experience this time of preparation, looking forward to the holiness 19 00:01:26,239 --> 00:01:30,480 of the hours that are approaching. Yes, the Sabbath is coming and God 20 00:01:30,560 --> 00:01:34,519 is preparing our hearts. Hopefully we are not just looking to clean our houses 21 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:41,200 and so forth, but more so being prepared in our hearts to meet God 22 00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:44,920 in a special way during the Sabbath hours. I'd like you to go over 23 00:01:45,000 --> 00:01:49,280 to your Daily Portion dot com, join our online community and pick up also 24 00:01:49,560 --> 00:01:53,680 the Your Daily Portion book, which will help to build faith and fellowship among 25 00:01:53,799 --> 00:01:59,079 us. And yeah, so before I pray, I just want to say 26 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:02,840 again, Happy preparation day. Let's pray, Father in Heaven, thank you 27 00:02:02,879 --> 00:02:07,879 for giving us this new day and for the blessing that you have given us 28 00:02:07,199 --> 00:02:14,280 thus far through this blessed Book of Ephesians. Please now give us your Holy 29 00:02:14,360 --> 00:02:19,080 Spirit, help us to see an experience as much as we can of the 30 00:02:19,159 --> 00:02:24,719 Glory today in Jesus name. I pray Amen and Amen again. Okay, 31 00:02:24,759 --> 00:02:30,120 So him comes to mind when I think of this caption, and it's titled 32 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:36,960 the Glory Song, right and it is when all my labors and trials are 33 00:02:37,039 --> 00:02:43,680 roar and I am safe on that beautiful shore, just to be near the 34 00:02:43,879 --> 00:02:50,319 Lord I adore. Will through the ages be glory for me. And then 35 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:57,400 we sing, Oh, that will be glory for me, Glory for me, 36 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:06,240 Glory for me. When by his grace, I shall look on his 37 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:16,000 face, that will be glory, be glory for me. See, when 38 00:03:16,039 --> 00:03:22,719 you're talking about the about seeing the face of God, you have to just 39 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:35,879 pause right when by his grace I shall look on his face. You see, 40 00:03:36,000 --> 00:03:38,759 Jesus said to Moses. And I know, I said Jesus. Jesus 41 00:03:38,759 --> 00:03:44,840 said to Moses, there shall no man see me and live. And so 42 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:51,439 when we have the privilege to have gone through the entire plan of salvation practically, 43 00:03:51,919 --> 00:03:57,520 and now we are living in the actual visible presence of God, it 44 00:03:57,560 --> 00:04:03,759 will have been only by his grace. Now I'm saying that now because I 45 00:04:03,879 --> 00:04:08,599 promised a couple of times that I would read a quote to you from the 46 00:04:08,599 --> 00:04:12,479 book Desire of Ages, pages nineteen and twenty. But I failed you. 47 00:04:12,680 --> 00:04:17,399 I apologize. But I'm reading it now and it reads by coming to dwell 48 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:23,319 with us. See, this is the condescension of Christ. Jesus was to 49 00:04:23,519 --> 00:04:31,720 reveal God both to men or humans and angels. Can we just pause here 50 00:04:31,759 --> 00:04:40,519 for a moment. When Jesus came to dwell with us like he became as 51 00:04:40,560 --> 00:04:44,079 a human being in order to save us from our sins. Yeah, it 52 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:47,079 wasn't only to save us from our sins, which was miraculous, which was 53 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:54,000 glorious, like which was amazing. But even angels needed to understand more about 54 00:04:54,040 --> 00:04:58,560 the glory of God. They needed to understand and experience more of the character 55 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:02,439 of God. And there for the golden threat of love, and that pulse 56 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:10,680 that will go throughout the universe is inextricably attached to what Jesus did by coming 57 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:15,560 here to dwell among us, to give his life a ransom for many to 58 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:21,000 be raised. Incorruptible, of course, incorruptible with healing in his wings, 59 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:26,839 with the keys of hell and the grave and death in his hands. And 60 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:32,519 one day we will see him seated firmly upon his throne as King of kings 61 00:05:32,879 --> 00:05:36,680 and Lord of lords. Blessed be his name. And it will have been 62 00:05:36,759 --> 00:05:45,199 done because God loves us, and clearly he loves angels. Amazing. Let 63 00:05:45,199 --> 00:05:50,279 me continue the quote, but not alone for his earthborn children. Was this 64 00:05:50,399 --> 00:05:56,680 revelation given? Our little world is a lesson book for the universe. So 65 00:05:56,800 --> 00:06:00,879 now we know it's for humanity. We also know it is or angels and 66 00:06:00,920 --> 00:06:06,720 then the unfallen worlds, the unfallen universe. Yes, God's wonderful purpose. 67 00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:14,759 Continuing the quote of grace, the mystery of redeeming love is the theme into 68 00:06:14,879 --> 00:06:20,560 which quote straight out of the Bible. Angels desire to look, and it 69 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:29,720 will be their study throughout endless ages. Amazing. Let me continue, Both 70 00:06:29,879 --> 00:06:34,639 the redeemed and the unfallen beings will find in the Cross of Christ, the 71 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:42,399 science and their song. It will be seen that the glory there's that word 72 00:06:42,399 --> 00:06:49,360 again, shining in the face of Jesus, is the glory of self sacrificing 73 00:06:49,879 --> 00:06:54,519 love. That is the end of the quote. I did not want to 74 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:58,000 rush through it. I did not want to add it to the end of 75 00:06:58,399 --> 00:07:05,680 you know yesterday or when's day. It will be a manifestation of the glory 76 00:07:06,399 --> 00:07:14,879 of self sacrificing love. So many people throw around this term love. I 77 00:07:14,959 --> 00:07:19,360 love spaghetti, I love my car, I love going to Tahiti, right, 78 00:07:19,399 --> 00:07:23,720 I love what you do for me. Toyota when I was young, 79 00:07:23,839 --> 00:07:29,720 that was toyota commercial. But God is saying the kind of love that is 80 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:35,160 of a biblical nature, of a godly sort, godly character. It's the 81 00:07:35,279 --> 00:07:45,639 kind that is fully self sacrificing, leaving nothing for self and yielding all for 82 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:50,439 the purposes of God. Amazing. This is why glory song is so important. 83 00:07:50,519 --> 00:07:56,199 We will sing, we will experience, we will study throughout the ages 84 00:07:56,600 --> 00:08:01,399 the glory of God that comes through what Jesus did in order to save us 85 00:08:01,600 --> 00:08:07,600 from our sins and to manifest the love of God throughout the universe. Now, 86 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:13,240 there are six principles that we will discuss thus far from or have really 87 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:18,560 discussed thus far in the Book of Ephesians. Will just barely touch them this 88 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:20,279 morning, but I want you to keep them in mind as we go into 89 00:08:20,319 --> 00:08:26,720 the Sabbath hours. Number one, God's choice of the people before the foundation 90 00:08:26,759 --> 00:08:31,720 of the world. Remember we're talking about self sacrificing love and seeing and experience. 91 00:08:31,879 --> 00:08:37,240 They experiencing the glory of God by his grace. So he chose you 92 00:08:37,879 --> 00:08:41,840 fill in your name here. He chose you from before the world was from 93 00:08:41,879 --> 00:08:46,120 before there was a beginning. He knew you well. He knew that You 94 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:50,799 may be a prophet among to the nations. You may be a coach to 95 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:54,360 people who need assistance. You may be a minister of the gospel, a 96 00:08:54,559 --> 00:09:01,960 doctor, a lawyer, someone who offers janitorial services. Whatever your vocation would 97 00:09:01,039 --> 00:09:09,039 be, whatever your ministry pursuits might be, God has chosen you from before 98 00:09:07,919 --> 00:09:11,559 there was a beginning in order to lead other people to Christ. Let me 99 00:09:11,639 --> 00:09:16,799 keep going their past lost existence. God redeemed you from your past. Yes, 100 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:20,519 intervention number three of God in Christ to save them. Of course, 101 00:09:20,639 --> 00:09:24,080 Jesus is the way that we are saved. Through Him, we are saved. 102 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:28,960 Number four. Their acceptance of the Gospel. He's not going to force 103 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:31,840 us. We need to accept by his grace the Gospel. Number five the 104 00:09:31,919 --> 00:09:37,159 present lives of the addresses. Of the addresses as disciples. God has called 105 00:09:37,279 --> 00:09:43,159 us to be his children and will come back to this principle another day. 106 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:48,799 Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. Always remember we cannot live 107 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:52,679 by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. 108 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:56,440 This has been your daily portion with l David Harris. Make it a 109 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:58,879 great day.