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, January twenty five, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name
is El 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 series through the Book of Psalms,
and our caption for today is help from the Sanctuary. Help from the
Sanctuary. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first I'd like
to say welcome to you and ask you to go over to your Daily Portion
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this is a way that we continue to build faith and fellowship. And let
me just say a great, big welcome to everybody who is with us on
a regular basis. I'd have no reason to be here except that you are
here and that you are sharing with people you believe need great news from God's
words. So let's go ahead and pray, and then we'll get right into
this. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day and
for the privilege that we have to open up your word. And I am
asking you, Father to please give us the fullness of your holy spirit,
teach us to serve you with all our hearts. And then I ask you
to give us the fullness of understanding and commitment to your words. In Jesus'
name, I pray Amen and Amen again. Okay, so help from the
sanctuary. We're going to begin with Jesus. We should begin and end with
Jesus everywhere in our lives, but that's a different study. Yes, we're
going to begin with Jesus and read from the Book of Hebrews, the Book
of Hebrews and give this some context or framework really for what we're going to
discuss today. Hebrews chapter four, and we will begin at verse fifteen,
this time from the New King James version, and the Bible reads, for
we do not have a high priest, And don't get confused with the backwards
ness of how the language go Sometimes New King James and the King James have
like a weird way of saying things. For we do not have a high
priest who cannot sympathize with our weakness. Let me say it this way,
Our high Priest, our great high Priest, can simplify, simplify, sympathize
with our weaknesses. But was in all points tempted like as we are,
yet without sin. Can I just pause right here for a moment. When
you read John saying that there are works of the flesh, like there are
deeds that lead to death, he says, the lust of the flesh,
the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, and these are
not things that God embraces. Right. So that's what John said. And
when you look at the temptations of Jesus, that experience that he had in
the wilderness after he was filled, Jesus with the Holy Ghost and the blessing
of God his Father, and acknowledgment of his love for Jesus Christ had happened,
and now he's led into the wilderness by the Holy Spirit, and then
the devil begins to tempt him. When you look at that account in the
Book of Luke, it actually comes those three kinds or types of temptations come
in the same order that John referenced. The lust of the flesh turned these
stones into bread, lust of the eyes. I'll give you everything if you
do this, and the pride of life just jump off of this and whatever
prove that you are guess you know coming from God, because the angels will
take charge over you. So you see that those came in those very in
that same order. Very interesting. Do you think that's by chance that the
Holy Ghost gave John that? Well, I would say no, it's not
by chance. And so we see these categories of sin and Jesus overcame them,
not just on that day, but from he was a young boy until
he gave his life voluntarily on the cross so that you and I could be
saved. And so going back to the text, now that we can understand,
for we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses.
But wasn't all points tempted like as we are, and yet without sin.
Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may
obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Let me just
say that Jesus is our sanctuary. I wish I had the time to really
drill into that. But the point here I'm making is that the same one
who overcame the enemy by yielding his will to God, our Father, is
a sanctuary. So that if we will yield our will to God our Father,
if we, through the Holy Ghost, will yield and our will to
God and have Jesus abide in us, then we know that we will have
the same victory that Jesus had. Jesus had victory from his natural birth until
he gave his life for us right his death. Yes, and we can
have victory from our rebirth until either we pass away or Jesus returns. Did
you get that? So the new birth experience is really an a is a
microcosm. It is a manifestation of the life of Jesus Christ. I wish
I had the time. If you didn't get that, please rewind it and
pray and listen again. Once we're done here. Okay, So the Book
of Psalms, now we're going to chapter three and verse four and see what
we can glean. The Bible reads, I cried unto the Lord with my
voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. So now we
see this place being referenced. This the presence of God being referenced here.
And when when God's people cry out unto the Lord, God from his vantage
point, from his ultimate presence, is hearing us. And remember I said
to the holy mindset the Hebrew people, being the first representatives in this case,
to hear and to do our synonymous And so when God hears us out
of his holy hill, he also and he inclines his ear to us,
and he grants us his peace like he is our defender, like we read
yesterday, he is our deliverer, and of course, in the context of
our discussion today, he's also our protection, our refuge, our help in
time of trouble. And now we move to the Book of Psalms, chapter
fourteen. Psalms, Chapter fourteen, and I will read verse seven. I
hope you're getting where we're going here, Oh, that the salvation of Israel
will come out of Zion when the Lord bringeth back the captivity of his people.
Jacob shall rejoice and Israel shall be glad. Of course, this is
referencing a time, a specific time in the history of God's people. It
is a mindset now that we can look at and say, you know,
God's people have been capt in their minds have been bound. Oh, if
we could just go back to Egypt, because you're taking us, Moses,
You're taking us out here into the wilderness to die. Oh, can we
please have quail? Oh? I don't know what this light bread is that
manner that God is giving us. Oh. Oh, And they complain and
they murmur, and they are annoying, and God is looking like He's about
to destroy them. But of course he was merciful. He was merciful to
them, and so bringing them out of that captive mindset, bringing them out
of various other times when they were captive to the Assyrians and to the Babylonians
and to the everybody else. Right, Egyptians, God is our salvation and
that power that God manifests is coming out of his holy hill Zion. And
then God's people, as we are delivered, we learn to rejoice, We
learn to rejo let me go to the Book of Psalms, chapter twenty now
and I'll read beginning at verse one, and the Bible reads, the Lord
hear thee in the day of trouble. You have to call unto him the
name of the God of Jacob, defend the yes, send thee help from
the sanctuary, and strength the strengthen the out of Zion. Remember all thy
offerings and accept thy burnt sacrifice Sillah. So God is our refuge, He
is our help, He is our strong tower, our tabernacle, our sanctuary.
And then one day, finally we will finally enter into His ultimate pavilion
in heaven and then the earth made. Thanks for joining us listening to 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,