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. It
is Thursday, February twenty nine, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name
is El David Harris. I am your host. 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 series through the Book of Psalms,
and our caption for today is Eternal Priest in the Order of Melchizedec. Before
we get into that, I'd like to just say a great, big,
happy birthday to anyone whose birthday is the twenty ninth day of February. I
know it's weird, like you don't have a birthday in their quotes every year
it's weird, like why do we why is the calendar that way? But
I just want to say again, like, happy birthday to whoever is born,
whoever was born on the twenty ninth day of February. Lord, bless
you and keep you. Yeah, very interesting situation there. Yeah, let's
go ahead and pray and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven.
Thank you for giving us this day and for the privilege that we have to
open your word. And thank you for the people who were born on February
twenty nine and the birthday thing is just weird for them because it doesn't come
around this way every year. Thank you, Father for giving us your word.
And I pray that we will worship you as a result. In Jesus'
name, I pray Amen and Amen again. The ideal and the result and
the outcome from reading and studying God's words should be transformed lives like we live
according to God's principles and are transformed so that we can help other people in
the same way. There are people who are bound to all kinds of sin,
challenges, all kinds of addictions, and God is saying, if you
will align yourself with me, then I will transform your life, and I
will give you holiness and eternity with God like it's such a privilege. And
so let us continue in our discussion through the Book of Psalms, thinking about
the order of Melchizedek, the eternal priesthood of Jesus. And let me just
say, very quickly, let's go ahead and pull the veil back about Melchizedek.
Melchizedek was a real human being. He was not a supernatural being.
He was a type or a force or a shadow if you want to say,
representation of Jesus Christ. Yes, but he is or was a regular
human being. Now, the priesthood we're talking about, the ironic priesthood,
there were records of every priest that would come from that line, and there
was a succession. Well, melchiz a Deck was not a part of that
priesthood. He was from the tribe of Judah. That the priests never came
from the tribe of Judah. Jesus comes from the tribe of Judah, the
same line of David. Okay, And so when the Bible is saying like
he had no beginning of days, really what the Bible is saying is that
there's no record of his priesthood. Why not, because it was an anomaly.
It was different than the way that the priesthood was normally set up.
Now, why God did that, I don't know. Why Abraham returned ties
and gave it to Melchizedec, I do not know. But we do know
that now that God has used that symbol intentionally as a type or a symbol
of Jesus Christ, some of those dots start to line up, and it's
like, okay, so we're seeing the uniqueness of the priesthood of Jesus Christ,
the high priestly ministry of Jesus Christ, who also did not come through
the tribe of Levi, you see. And so that's basically it. I
am super simplifying. I don't want you to get caught up in the language
concerning Melkezedek and think that he was other than human being. He was fully
human, not supernatural. He did not pre exist his birth, nothing like
that. But he was unique in the respect of his priesthood. Okay,
And so we go now, and now that we've gotten that out of the
way, we go now to the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and
ten, and I will read verses four through seven and so the Bible reads,
the Lord makes this promise on oath and will not revoke it. You
are an eternal priest. This is speaking of Jesus. You are an eternal
priest. After the pattern of Melchizedec. I explained to you what the pattern
was. He did not come from the priestly tribe. He came from Judah.
Okay, oh Lord, that's your right hand. He strikes down kings
in the day that he unleashes his anger. He executes judgment against the nations.
He fills the valleys with corpses, he shatters their heads over the vast
battlefield. From the stream along the road he drinks. Then he lifts up
his head. Let me just say very simply here that this eternal priest,
who's also the eternal king of kings, Jesus Christ, that the angels worshiped
when they said, lift up your heads, oh ye gates and be ye
lifted up ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall come in.
And then the question who is this King of glory? And then another angel
says, the Lord strong and mighty, who is this King of glory?
The Lord Mighty in battle? Lift up your heads, oh ye gates,
and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall
come in. And they are in full worship in heaven regarding Jesus Christ.
And so this same high priest, eternal high priest, this same Jesus,
this same person is the King of kings and the Lord of lords, the
full manifestation of God's promise that the that the throne of David would be ascended
by an eternal king. Well, Jesus is the only one that could have
qualified for that one, you see. And so I'm thanking that God is
giving us this picture, because that means that if Jesus could humble himself,
humble himself to death, even death upon the cross, that he could humble
himself for thirty three and one half years, then how is it? How
would I be proud? How would I be proud when I get a promotion?
If you have a job, you get a promotion at work, How
could you be proud if you are a minister of the gospel and you get
another a church, a bigger church somewhere, or you have another responsibility,
maybe in administration, How could you be proud when Jesus Christ, When Jesus
Christ, the one who created all that we can see and we cannot see
when he created all of these things, and he humbled himself in order to
save us. And though he's King of kings and Lord of lords, he's
the eternal priest who has mediated for the people, who has interceded for the
people of God. Yes, and so we thank God that we can see
the humility of Jesus, even though he is so unique to the extreme,
and of course fully holy. And so we jump into the Book of Hebrews,
chapter seven. And of course I super understated that, and we will
read beginning at verse twenty the Bible reads. And since this is not done
without a sworn affirmation or an oath, For the others have become priests without
a sworn affirmation, but Jesus did so with a sworn affirmation by the one
who said to him, the Lord has sworn and will not change his mind.
You will be a priest forever. Accordingly, Jesus has become the guarantee
of a better covenant. Let me just stop there. There was so much
more all the way to verse twenty eight, but let me super simplify it.
And so Jesus sworn by an oath that cannot be annulled, that is
the honor of God by his own name. Like by his own honor,
he becomes the pert representative of this covenant, and he keeps the promise fully
rite this covenant that God would have with his people, that he would write
his laws on our hearts and on our minds, so that we can be
as people. We can overcome any sin, any temptation, any trial because
of this covenant. Because why Jesus is eternal. The earthly priest they died
one after the other. They died, they even had to minister to be
forgiven of their own sins. But Jesus Christ, the perfect, sinless high
Priest, stands so that we can live eternally. And I'm thankful because earthly
priests were faulty. 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,