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Most of us eat every day,
some of us too much because yesterday's food

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is not enough to supply energy for
today's needs. Why then, do some

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of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly
manna the word of God to keep us

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through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all of

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that. Let's experience God's words today
and receive the power we need to live

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healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to
your Daily Portion with your host, author

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speaker Elle David Harris. Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It

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is Thursday, February twenty nine,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my name

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is El David Harris. I am
your host. This is your Daily Portion

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where we give you God's word every
single day, and today is no exception.

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We are continuing in our lesson study
series through the Book of Psalms,

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and our caption for today is Eternal
Priest in the Order of Melchizedec. Before

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we get into that, I'd like
to just say a great, big,

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happy birthday to anyone whose birthday is
the twenty ninth day of February. I

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know it's weird, like you don't
have a birthday in their quotes every year

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it's weird, like why do we
why is the calendar that way? But

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I just want to say again,
like, happy birthday to whoever is born,

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whoever was born on the twenty ninth
day of February. Lord, bless

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you and keep you. Yeah,
very interesting situation there. Yeah, let's

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go ahead and pray and then we
will get underway. Father and Heaven.

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Thank you for giving us this day
and for the privilege that we have to

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open your word. And thank you
for the people who were born on February

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twenty nine and the birthday thing is
just weird for them because it doesn't come

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around this way every year. Thank
you, Father for giving us your word.

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And I pray that we will worship
you as a result. In Jesus'

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name, I pray Amen and Amen
again. The ideal and the result and

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the outcome from reading and studying God's
words should be transformed lives like we live

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according to God's principles and are transformed
so that we can help other people in

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the same way. There are people
who are bound to all kinds of sin,

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challenges, all kinds of addictions,
and God is saying, if you

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will align yourself with me, then
I will transform your life, and I

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will give you holiness and eternity with
God like it's such a privilege. And

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so let us continue in our discussion
through the Book of Psalms, thinking about

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the order of Melchizedek, the eternal
priesthood of Jesus. And let me just

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say, very quickly, let's go
ahead and pull the veil back about Melchizedek.

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Melchizedek was a real human being.
He was not a supernatural being.

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He was a type or a force
or a shadow if you want to say,

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representation of Jesus Christ. Yes,
but he is or was a regular

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human being. Now, the priesthood
we're talking about, the ironic priesthood,

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there were records of every priest that
would come from that line, and there

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was a succession. Well, melchiz
a Deck was not a part of that

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priesthood. He was from the tribe
of Judah. That the priests never came

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from the tribe of Judah. Jesus
comes from the tribe of Judah, the

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same line of David. Okay,
And so when the Bible is saying like

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he had no beginning of days,
really what the Bible is saying is that

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there's no record of his priesthood.
Why not, because it was an anomaly.

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It was different than the way that
the priesthood was normally set up.

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Now, why God did that,
I don't know. Why Abraham returned ties

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and gave it to Melchizedec, I
do not know. But we do know

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that now that God has used that
symbol intentionally as a type or a symbol

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of Jesus Christ, some of those
dots start to line up, and it's

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like, okay, so we're seeing
the uniqueness of the priesthood of Jesus Christ,

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the high priestly ministry of Jesus Christ, who also did not come through

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the tribe of Levi, you see. And so that's basically it. I

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am super simplifying. I don't want
you to get caught up in the language

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concerning Melkezedek and think that he was
other than human being. He was fully

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human, not supernatural. He did
not pre exist his birth, nothing like

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that. But he was unique in
the respect of his priesthood. Okay,

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And so we go now, and
now that we've gotten that out of the

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way, we go now to the
Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and

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ten, and I will read verses
four through seven and so the Bible reads,

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the Lord makes this promise on oath
and will not revoke it. You

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are an eternal priest. This is
speaking of Jesus. You are an eternal

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priest. After the pattern of Melchizedec. I explained to you what the pattern

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was. He did not come from
the priestly tribe. He came from Judah.

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Okay, oh Lord, that's your
right hand. He strikes down kings

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in the day that he unleashes his
anger. He executes judgment against the nations.

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He fills the valleys with corpses,
he shatters their heads over the vast

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battlefield. From the stream along the
road he drinks. Then he lifts up

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his head. Let me just say
very simply here that this eternal priest,

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who's also the eternal king of kings, Jesus Christ, that the angels worshiped

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when they said, lift up your
heads, oh ye gates and be ye

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lifted up ye everlasting doors, and
the King of Glory shall come in.

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And then the question who is this
King of glory? And then another angel

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says, the Lord strong and mighty, who is this King of glory?

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The Lord Mighty in battle? Lift
up your heads, oh ye gates,

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and be ye lifted up ye everlasting
doors, and the King of Glory shall

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come in. And they are in
full worship in heaven regarding Jesus Christ.

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And so this same high priest,
eternal high priest, this same Jesus,

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this same person is the King of
kings and the Lord of lords, the

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full manifestation of God's promise that the
that the throne of David would be ascended

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by an eternal king. Well,
Jesus is the only one that could have

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qualified for that one, you see. And so I'm thanking that God is

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giving us this picture, because that
means that if Jesus could humble himself,

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humble himself to death, even death
upon the cross, that he could humble

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himself for thirty three and one half
years, then how is it? How

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would I be proud? How would
I be proud when I get a promotion?

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If you have a job, you
get a promotion at work, How

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could you be proud if you are
a minister of the gospel and you get

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another a church, a bigger church
somewhere, or you have another responsibility,

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maybe in administration, How could you
be proud when Jesus Christ, When Jesus

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Christ, the one who created all
that we can see and we cannot see

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when he created all of these things, and he humbled himself in order to

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save us. And though he's King
of kings and Lord of lords, he's

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the eternal priest who has mediated for
the people, who has interceded for the

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people of God. Yes, and
so we thank God that we can see

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the humility of Jesus, even though
he is so unique to the extreme,

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and of course fully holy. And
so we jump into the Book of Hebrews,

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chapter seven. And of course I
super understated that, and we will

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read beginning at verse twenty the Bible
reads. And since this is not done

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without a sworn affirmation or an oath, For the others have become priests without

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a sworn affirmation, but Jesus did
so with a sworn affirmation by the one

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who said to him, the Lord
has sworn and will not change his mind.

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You will be a priest forever.
Accordingly, Jesus has become the guarantee

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of a better covenant. Let me
just stop there. There was so much

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more all the way to verse twenty
eight, but let me super simplify it.

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And so Jesus sworn by an oath
that cannot be annulled, that is

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the honor of God by his own
name. Like by his own honor,

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he becomes the pert representative of this
covenant, and he keeps the promise fully

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rite this covenant that God would have
with his people, that he would write

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his laws on our hearts and on
our minds, so that we can be

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as people. We can overcome any
sin, any temptation, any trial because

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of this covenant. Because why Jesus
is eternal. The earthly priest they died

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one after the other. They died, they even had to minister to be

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forgiven of their own sins. But
Jesus Christ, the perfect, sinless high

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Priest, stands so that we can
live eternally. And I'm thankful because earthly

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priests were faulty. Peace. Thanks
for joining us listening. Friends, Always

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remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from

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the mouth of God. This has
been your daily portion with el David Harris.

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Make it a great day. Yeah,