1 00:00:01,159 --> 00:00:05,559 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 --> 00:00:15,039 some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to 4 00:00:15,160 --> 00:00:19,760 keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change 5 00:00:19,879 --> 00:00:25,120 all that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to 6 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:30,800 live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host, 7 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:34,880 author speaker L. David Harris. Good morning, good morning, good morning. 8 00:00:35,119 --> 00:00:40,679 It is Tuesday, October three, two twenty three. Hello. Hello, 9 00:00:40,759 --> 00:00:43,200 My name is L. David Harris. I am your host, and 10 00:00:43,280 --> 00:00:47,520 this is your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, 11 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:51,920 and today is no exception. We are continuing in our lessons study series. 12 00:00:52,159 --> 00:00:58,359 God's Mission, My mission, God's mission, my mission, and our caption 13 00:00:58,439 --> 00:01:03,280 for today is the God who came or became one with us. Let me 14 00:01:03,319 --> 00:01:08,680 say it again, the God who became one with us. Oh that's a 15 00:01:08,719 --> 00:01:12,079 good one. We will get into that in just a moment, but first 16 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:15,239 I like to say welcome to you and ask you to please go over to 17 00:01:15,319 --> 00:01:21,959 your Daily Portion dot com join our online community click and pick up the Your 18 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:25,879 Daily Portion book and also fill out the form to say where you are in 19 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:29,680 the world. I want to know where you are in the world because it 20 00:01:29,799 --> 00:01:34,319 is encouraging to see how far and why God is spreading his message of love 21 00:01:34,439 --> 00:01:40,519 and salvation in the earth from your vantage point. So please go to your 22 00:01:40,599 --> 00:01:44,040 Daily Portion dot com and just do that favor for me. And by the 23 00:01:44,040 --> 00:01:48,079 way, I don't normally ask, because you do it anyway, Please go 24 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:53,640 ahead and click the share button. To click the share button so that we 25 00:01:53,040 --> 00:02:00,680 can spread the gospel together. Let's go ahead and pray and then yet under 26 00:02:00,879 --> 00:02:04,359 way. Father in Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day and 27 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:07,680 for giving us the privilege to come together in this manner. Please draw us 28 00:02:07,719 --> 00:02:14,000 into your presence, help us to love you and to begin to embrace the 29 00:02:14,039 --> 00:02:19,560 blessing that you are to us in giving us your son in Jesus name, 30 00:02:19,599 --> 00:02:27,520 I praying Amen and Amen again. There is an incredible mystery that is outlined 31 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:31,240 in the scriptures. All throughout scripture there is there are references, hundreds and 32 00:02:31,439 --> 00:02:38,840 hundreds of references. But when the reality came, it was astonishing, I 33 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:44,840 mean arresting in its impact. You know, what it is. Yeah, 34 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:51,199 Paul said, great is the mystery of God that God became like a human. 35 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:57,759 And we're speaking about Jesus Christ, God the Son. That's the second 36 00:02:57,840 --> 00:03:00,080 person, if you want to call it. In the Godhead, God the 37 00:03:00,199 --> 00:03:05,199 Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. We're talking about God 38 00:03:05,240 --> 00:03:12,039 the Son putting on human flesh, human form, yes, continuing, continuing 39 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:15,840 to be equal with God our Father. And yet at the same time, 40 00:03:15,000 --> 00:03:22,479 somehow this divine mathematics says one hundred percent God, one hundred percent human. 41 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:25,759 And it took all of that to save us. The God who became one 42 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:31,400 with us, you see, he came to seek us when Adam had sinned. 43 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:36,240 Adam and Eve really, but when Adam had sinned in the garden of 44 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:39,560 Eden, God came in pursuit of us. And we talked about yesterday. 45 00:03:39,599 --> 00:03:45,520 The God who longs to be with us. He's gone through all that it 46 00:03:45,919 --> 00:03:49,560 takes in order to save people, and at some point he's going to just 47 00:03:49,599 --> 00:03:55,400 close up that work, close down that mission, and simply accept those who 48 00:03:55,479 --> 00:04:00,719 will accept him in return. And so God went to the extent that he 49 00:04:00,840 --> 00:04:08,439 became as one of us in order to save us. Can you imagine going 50 00:04:08,479 --> 00:04:13,560 to that extreme to save someone many of whom, some of the people just 51 00:04:13,639 --> 00:04:16,079 really didn't want to be saved anyway, and yet he did it anyway. 52 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:20,439 Oh my, So let's again we're all about action. As we learn our 53 00:04:20,519 --> 00:04:26,399 lessons, we are still about action. So I want you to embrace the 54 00:04:26,519 --> 00:04:31,759 prophetic promise. When you're thinking about God who became like us in order to 55 00:04:31,839 --> 00:04:36,839 save us, embrace the prophetic assurance. And here is a context. In 56 00:04:36,959 --> 00:04:42,959 Isaiah chapter forty six, Versus nine and ten, the Bible says, I 57 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:48,279 am God. There is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning, 58 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:57,879 saying my purpose will be established and I will accomplish all my good pleasure. 59 00:04:58,439 --> 00:05:01,959 Can I ask you a question, how do God's words from the past 60 00:05:02,759 --> 00:05:08,160 assure you of his plans for the future? Can I ask you just one 61 00:05:08,199 --> 00:05:12,759 more time, how do God's God's words from the past, like the promises 62 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:15,279 that he has made, the things that he told you would come like? 63 00:05:15,399 --> 00:05:20,920 How does his words from the past assure you of his plans or the future. 64 00:05:21,920 --> 00:05:26,319 Let me just jump in here and say, while you are mulling this 65 00:05:26,519 --> 00:05:31,759 over, that the same God who created the worlds right in just six literal 66 00:05:31,839 --> 00:05:35,800 days and then he rested on the seventh day and sanctified it. The same 67 00:05:35,879 --> 00:05:41,120 God who said let there be light and there was light, also said that 68 00:05:41,199 --> 00:05:45,600 Jesus Christ would come. He said that there would be a messiah like Shiloh 69 00:05:45,639 --> 00:05:49,560 would come, the one who would come and save his people from their sins, 70 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:54,639 the one who was equal to God in eternal nature, according to Micah 71 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:59,040 chapter five in verse two, would come out of Bethlehem. Frita. I 72 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:04,360 wish I had the time to deal with that experience with Boaz, and oh, 73 00:06:04,439 --> 00:06:08,920 my goodness, just so much I could say in ruth. But God 74 00:06:09,079 --> 00:06:14,959 is saying that I have given you. I think Jesus said, I I 75 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:19,519 have told you these things before they happen, so that when they do happen, 76 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:26,000 you will know that I am he. And in the Book of Isaiah 77 00:06:26,040 --> 00:06:30,079 in the forties, the chapters called in the forties, there were times that 78 00:06:30,199 --> 00:06:35,279 God would flex his supernatural muscles and apologies to people who don't like that imagery, 79 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:39,439 but he was going all in, and he was saying, who are 80 00:06:39,480 --> 00:06:45,399 those gods who you have erected that you are placing in my path to stand 81 00:06:45,480 --> 00:06:48,199 up against me? Let them declare the end from the beginning. Let them 82 00:06:48,279 --> 00:06:53,839 call the worlds and put them in place, let them stand up in those 83 00:06:53,879 --> 00:06:57,759 ways, and then I will bow to them. But of course there is 84 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:02,319 no takers, there are no answers. Malak has to bow like Bayl and 85 00:07:02,399 --> 00:07:06,600 Ashtarov have to go, like all of the false gods of the past and 86 00:07:06,800 --> 00:07:14,199 present must bow. The paradigms of the foolish humans that created them, the 87 00:07:14,279 --> 00:07:19,439 altars that people have erected to missing in false gods, all of that has 88 00:07:19,519 --> 00:07:25,480 to bow. Why Because I am God, God has said, and there 89 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:29,759 was none like me, he declares the end from the beginning. That means 90 00:07:29,800 --> 00:07:33,279 He's eternal. He is eternal. And so I want you to reflect on 91 00:07:33,319 --> 00:07:38,079 God's words in the past, the promises he has made, and how they 92 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:43,240 have come to past, and see how that impacts His plans in your life 93 00:07:43,399 --> 00:07:47,920 for the future. I also want you to witness God's promises fulfilled. In 94 00:07:47,959 --> 00:07:53,879 this context. Matthew Chapter one, in verse twenty three reads, behold the 95 00:07:54,079 --> 00:07:59,120 Virgin, what a miracle. The Virgin will be with child and bear a 96 00:07:59,319 --> 00:08:03,600 son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel. I think we said something 97 00:08:03,639 --> 00:08:09,879 about God being with us. Yes, the mystery of God where Christ becomes 98 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:13,759 like us in order to make us like God. Yes. With that being 99 00:08:13,839 --> 00:08:20,600 interpreted, God with us. So I want you to ponder today, in 100 00:08:20,639 --> 00:08:26,959 what ways do you see God's promises being fulfilled in your life? As God 101 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:31,759 promised to be with you and never forsake you. Yes, yes, Lord, 102 00:08:31,879 --> 00:08:35,799 Yes, has God promised that even though you sin, if you confess 103 00:08:35,919 --> 00:08:39,440 your sins, he is faithful and just to forgive you and to cleanse you 104 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:43,399 from all unrighteousness. Yes, Lord, Yes, you have kept your promise. 105 00:08:43,759 --> 00:08:48,440 When your mother or your father, are some guardian or someone else who 106 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:54,039 saw you on the street prayed and laid hands on you and spoke over your 107 00:08:54,039 --> 00:08:58,320 life and declared the promise of God that you would be the head and not 108 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:01,519 the tale. Right, you would be a leader and not the follower. 109 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:05,399 You would be a lender and no longer a borrower, That you would be 110 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:09,600 just like God. And people would be amazed by God and say, how 111 00:09:09,639 --> 00:09:13,399 could you redeem a sinner like him? How could you redeem a sinner like 112 00:09:13,519 --> 00:09:18,759 her? And in your life now you see the manifestation. Yes, Lord, 113 00:09:18,919 --> 00:09:22,440 yes, And I want you also to discover the way to the Father. 114 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:28,639 In closing, discover the way to the Father. Jesus said, I 115 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:31,919 am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. And no one cometh 116 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:35,159 unto the Father, but by me. God has put a plan in place 117 00:09:35,639 --> 00:09:41,960 that he gives a direct pathway el Camino a Cristo, a pathway to Christ. 118 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:48,519 Hallelujah. Thanks for joining us listening to friends. Always remember we cannot 119 00:09:48,559 --> 00:09:52,320 live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of 120 00:09:52,360 --> 00:09:56,320 God. This has been your daily portion with l David Harris. Make it 121 00:09:56,360 --> 00:10:00,320 a great day.