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
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 L. David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good morning.
It is Friday, August eleven, twenty twenty three. Hello, my name
is L. 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
Ephesians, and our caption this preparation day morning is the Immeasurable Christ, the
amen Measurable Christ. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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Okay, Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
Father in heaven, thank you for giving us the privilege of being called by
your name. Thank you, Father for giving us the opportunity to serve.
And I'm asking you now to give us the fullness of your Holy spirit.
Please teach us how to love you and give us a clear view of the
immeasurable Christ. And then worship you in Jesus name. I pray, Amen
and a men again the immeasurable Christ. So we're going to the Book of
Ephesians again, of course, the Book of Ephesians chapter four, and I
will read beginning at verse seven. Okay, Ephesians Chapter four and I will
read beginning at verse seven, and the Bible reads, but unto every one
of us is given grace according to the measure. Oh I love this,
according to the measure of the gift of God. Can you imagine receiving anything
at all? It doesn't matter, any positive gift from Heaven that is congruent
with or equal or an alignment with the same measure of who Christ is.
Okay, maybe that sounds a little bit too academic or too philosophical. Can
you imagine if you are thirsty in a desert, right and your family is
thirsty in a desert, and you are now guaranteed as much water as the
measure of Jesus Christ is. So however large Jesus is, now you have
that amount of water. Or maybe you are considering your finances right now.
What if you have school fees to pay, you have bills at home to
pay, right, and there are people in different parts of the world who
are relying on you to be successful and generous, and oh, wait a
minute, God has promised I'm saying, imagine this right, So don't call
me and say that I said this right, But imagine that God had promised
that as much money, as is the immeasurable nature of Christ is at your
disposal, like your bank account. The next day will have or even this
day will have as many zeros as Jesus is in stature. I think you
kind of understand here. But what the Bible is saying is that He's going
to actually give us grace, that is, power to do God's will,
that is also unmerited favor, forgiveness of sins, and again the ability to
do God's will. He's going to give us that much. Right, So
if we were to put it into numbers, he would give us that number
that is equal to how immeasurable Jesus is. So this is the blessing,
like the gift of Christ is immeasurable, and therefore whatever we need is immeasurable.
God will give us as much of whatever we need in our entire lives
as is the measure of Jesus Christ, as long as we have faith in
him. That's the bottom line. Maybe my examples were a little bit gross
or not specific, but I think you get the point verse eight, wherefore
he said when he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive. I
think we read this before and gave gifts unto men. Now that he ascended,
what is it but that he also descended. Remember he ascended, that
means that when he ascends, that means he invested time with us down here.
For thirty three and a half years, Jesus lived and walked among human
beings. He was not a celebrity. He didn't come down here to be
a celebrity. He didn't make himself taller than everybody. He did not make
himself more beautiful than everybody. He did not come with a large bank account,
even though there's nothing wrong with those. He gave Job a large bank
account in Solomon and others. Right, yes, Abraham had a large bank
account. He did not come with fanciful words. When Jesus spoke, he
spoke with the power of the Holy Spirit, and it was based on that
power that people were led into a right relationship with God or convicted that they
were doing the wrong thing and they just really couldn't have cared less. That's
a different discussion, but it's saying here that since he ascended, that means
that he descended. But he descended to earth to the point that he reached
down into the dregs of earth like the people who were least likely to exceed,
right, succeed, the people who were least likely to succeed, the
individuals who were bound to sin, like oppressed and depressed, those individuals who
could not resist looking at those wicked things on the internet, right, the
ones who could not resist their pride when they saw themselves with the filters over
their faces, or they're in the new threads app and they're only typing about
themselves or things to bring people's attention to themselves, like he came to seek
and to save the loss, like he came to seek and to save me.
And the Bible says that in verse ten, he that descended is the
saying that also ascended up far above the heavens, that he might fill all
things, all things, like what I think the Old Testament writer, the
Bible writer said in Isaiah chapter fifty three, that there will be a time
when Jesus will see the travail of his soul and be satisfied. And it's
like, Dave, I thought you were trying to be clearer. Now I
really don't know what you're talking about. Okay, So this is what the
Bible is teaching us, that there will come a time, very soon,
when Jesus does return and all of this predicament that we are in is put
to an end, and he's about to take us to heaven for a thousand
years. It'll be in that moment and moments to follow that Jesus will look
around at all of those redeemed ones, all of those who allowed him to
save them, like all of them who did not put money before him,
that did not put family or the way we feel about ourselves before him,
like we put nothing before him. We yielded our wills entirely to him.
He will see all of those millions of people throughout the ages, all at
one time, and he will say it was all worth it. It was
worth it that I allowed the people to nail me to the cross. Right,
it was worth it that I, for thirty three and a half years,
was not able to fully sense my oneness with the Father. Yes,
it was. It was worth it that when I was in the garden of
Getsemine that I was saying, if there's another way to do this, Father,
let it be done, But nevertheless, not as I will, but
as thou wilt, Like when Jesus was on the cross, like he is
saying that it would be will have been worth it when he was on the
cross, and for those moments he said, my God, my God,
why hast thou forsaken me? Like? What have I done? Yes,
it would have been worth it. And when he sees your face, the
face of your children, I want you to dream with me here and then
make the goal to be in the kingdom with him. When he sees the
face of your children, the faces of those who would have listened to you
through the power of the Holy Spirit and said yes to God, he will
see all of that and say it was well worth it that I suffered and
died. But of course Jesus raised himself again as he said he would,
and the immeasurable nature of Christ is now in your spiritual bank account. 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 l David Harris. Make it a great day.