1 00:00:01,159 --> 00:00:05,879 Most of us eat every day, some of us too much because yesterday's food 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:10,679 is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do some 3 00:00:10,759 --> 00:00:15,359 of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to keep 4 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:20,079 us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change all 5 00:00:20,199 --> 00:00:25,399 that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need to live 6 00:00:25,480 --> 00:00:31,320 healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author 7 00:00:31,399 --> 00:00:34,719 speaker L. David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. 8 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:39,880 It is Friday, August eleven, twenty twenty three. Hello, my name 9 00:00:39,920 --> 00:00:42,560 is L. David Harris. I am your host, and this is your 10 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:46,799 Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today is 11 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:51,439 no exception. We are continuing in our lesson study series through the Book of 12 00:00:51,479 --> 00:00:59,560 Ephesians, and our caption this preparation day morning is the Immeasurable Christ, the 13 00:00:59,640 --> 00:01:03,359 amen Measurable Christ. We'll get into that in just a moment, but first 14 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:07,519 I'd like to say welcome one, Welcome all, and ask you to please 15 00:01:07,599 --> 00:01:11,959 go over to your Daily Portion dot com site, pick up the Your Daily 16 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:17,000 Portion book, and also join our online community. There is where we build 17 00:01:17,079 --> 00:01:22,799 faith and fellowship, and of course we are there to connect connect concerning the 18 00:01:22,840 --> 00:01:26,680 Word of God. In this context, we're talking about whatever we are studying. 19 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:30,640 You can ask your questions, leave your comments and so forth, and 20 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:34,879 we can have a lively discussion where we are not able to while we are 21 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:38,040 live or even as you're listening on the radio. Okay, So go to 22 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:44,000 your Daily Portion dot com and join the community. Community is where life is 23 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:48,000 transformed. I promise you, not from listening to me talk to you. 24 00:01:48,079 --> 00:01:52,239 Okay, Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. 25 00:01:52,359 --> 00:01:55,719 Father in heaven, thank you for giving us the privilege of being called by 26 00:01:55,719 --> 00:01:59,959 your name. Thank you, Father for giving us the opportunity to serve. 27 00:02:00,760 --> 00:02:04,280 And I'm asking you now to give us the fullness of your Holy spirit. 28 00:02:04,359 --> 00:02:07,879 Please teach us how to love you and give us a clear view of the 29 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:14,919 immeasurable Christ. And then worship you in Jesus name. I pray, Amen 30 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:22,919 and a men again the immeasurable Christ. So we're going to the Book of 31 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:27,000 Ephesians again, of course, the Book of Ephesians chapter four, and I 32 00:02:27,039 --> 00:02:30,879 will read beginning at verse seven. Okay, Ephesians Chapter four and I will 33 00:02:30,879 --> 00:02:37,280 read beginning at verse seven, and the Bible reads, but unto every one 34 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:42,960 of us is given grace according to the measure. Oh I love this, 35 00:02:43,439 --> 00:02:51,879 according to the measure of the gift of God. Can you imagine receiving anything 36 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:58,360 at all? It doesn't matter, any positive gift from Heaven that is congruent 37 00:02:58,560 --> 00:03:06,400 with or equal or an alignment with the same measure of who Christ is. 38 00:03:07,039 --> 00:03:10,120 Okay, maybe that sounds a little bit too academic or too philosophical. Can 39 00:03:10,159 --> 00:03:15,439 you imagine if you are thirsty in a desert, right and your family is 40 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:23,560 thirsty in a desert, and you are now guaranteed as much water as the 41 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:29,039 measure of Jesus Christ is. So however large Jesus is, now you have 42 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:34,560 that amount of water. Or maybe you are considering your finances right now. 43 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:38,199 What if you have school fees to pay, you have bills at home to 44 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:42,400 pay, right, and there are people in different parts of the world who 45 00:03:42,439 --> 00:03:46,759 are relying on you to be successful and generous, and oh, wait a 46 00:03:46,759 --> 00:03:52,159 minute, God has promised I'm saying, imagine this right, So don't call 47 00:03:52,199 --> 00:03:55,439 me and say that I said this right, But imagine that God had promised 48 00:03:55,479 --> 00:04:02,680 that as much money, as is the immeasurable nature of Christ is at your 49 00:04:02,759 --> 00:04:08,520 disposal, like your bank account. The next day will have or even this 50 00:04:08,599 --> 00:04:15,400 day will have as many zeros as Jesus is in stature. I think you 51 00:04:15,599 --> 00:04:17,720 kind of understand here. But what the Bible is saying is that He's going 52 00:04:17,800 --> 00:04:21,360 to actually give us grace, that is, power to do God's will, 53 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:28,040 that is also unmerited favor, forgiveness of sins, and again the ability to 54 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:30,040 do God's will. He's going to give us that much. Right, So 55 00:04:30,319 --> 00:04:34,399 if we were to put it into numbers, he would give us that number 56 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:44,040 that is equal to how immeasurable Jesus is. So this is the blessing, 57 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:47,920 like the gift of Christ is immeasurable, and therefore whatever we need is immeasurable. 58 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:55,319 God will give us as much of whatever we need in our entire lives 59 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:59,639 as is the measure of Jesus Christ, as long as we have faith in 60 00:04:59,720 --> 00:05:05,439 him. That's the bottom line. Maybe my examples were a little bit gross 61 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:11,319 or not specific, but I think you get the point verse eight, wherefore 62 00:05:11,399 --> 00:05:15,959 he said when he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive. I 63 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:20,079 think we read this before and gave gifts unto men. Now that he ascended, 64 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:26,160 what is it but that he also descended. Remember he ascended, that 65 00:05:26,199 --> 00:05:30,480 means that when he ascends, that means he invested time with us down here. 66 00:05:30,800 --> 00:05:35,120 For thirty three and a half years, Jesus lived and walked among human 67 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:40,240 beings. He was not a celebrity. He didn't come down here to be 68 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:43,959 a celebrity. He didn't make himself taller than everybody. He did not make 69 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:46,879 himself more beautiful than everybody. He did not come with a large bank account, 70 00:05:46,920 --> 00:05:49,800 even though there's nothing wrong with those. He gave Job a large bank 71 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:54,839 account in Solomon and others. Right, yes, Abraham had a large bank 72 00:05:54,839 --> 00:06:00,439 account. He did not come with fanciful words. When Jesus spoke, he 73 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:04,360 spoke with the power of the Holy Spirit, and it was based on that 74 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:11,680 power that people were led into a right relationship with God or convicted that they 75 00:06:11,680 --> 00:06:14,680 were doing the wrong thing and they just really couldn't have cared less. That's 76 00:06:14,680 --> 00:06:18,160 a different discussion, but it's saying here that since he ascended, that means 77 00:06:18,199 --> 00:06:23,959 that he descended. But he descended to earth to the point that he reached 78 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:29,800 down into the dregs of earth like the people who were least likely to exceed, 79 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:33,199 right, succeed, the people who were least likely to succeed, the 80 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:39,959 individuals who were bound to sin, like oppressed and depressed, those individuals who 81 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:43,600 could not resist looking at those wicked things on the internet, right, the 82 00:06:43,639 --> 00:06:47,319 ones who could not resist their pride when they saw themselves with the filters over 83 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:51,600 their faces, or they're in the new threads app and they're only typing about 84 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:58,079 themselves or things to bring people's attention to themselves, like he came to seek 85 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:00,720 and to save the loss, like he came to seek and to save me. 86 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:06,639 And the Bible says that in verse ten, he that descended is the 87 00:07:06,759 --> 00:07:13,959 saying that also ascended up far above the heavens, that he might fill all 88 00:07:14,120 --> 00:07:17,000 things, all things, like what I think the Old Testament writer, the 89 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:21,079 Bible writer said in Isaiah chapter fifty three, that there will be a time 90 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:27,759 when Jesus will see the travail of his soul and be satisfied. And it's 91 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:30,040 like, Dave, I thought you were trying to be clearer. Now I 92 00:07:30,079 --> 00:07:33,120 really don't know what you're talking about. Okay, So this is what the 93 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:36,560 Bible is teaching us, that there will come a time, very soon, 94 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:46,120 when Jesus does return and all of this predicament that we are in is put 95 00:07:46,199 --> 00:07:49,120 to an end, and he's about to take us to heaven for a thousand 96 00:07:49,199 --> 00:07:56,040 years. It'll be in that moment and moments to follow that Jesus will look 97 00:07:56,120 --> 00:08:01,319 around at all of those redeemed ones, all of those who allowed him to 98 00:08:01,399 --> 00:08:07,199 save them, like all of them who did not put money before him, 99 00:08:07,319 --> 00:08:11,199 that did not put family or the way we feel about ourselves before him, 100 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:16,360 like we put nothing before him. We yielded our wills entirely to him. 101 00:08:16,360 --> 00:08:22,800 He will see all of those millions of people throughout the ages, all at 102 00:08:22,879 --> 00:08:26,360 one time, and he will say it was all worth it. It was 103 00:08:26,399 --> 00:08:30,079 worth it that I allowed the people to nail me to the cross. Right, 104 00:08:30,319 --> 00:08:33,399 it was worth it that I, for thirty three and a half years, 105 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:37,960 was not able to fully sense my oneness with the Father. Yes, 106 00:08:37,360 --> 00:08:41,759 it was. It was worth it that when I was in the garden of 107 00:08:41,799 --> 00:08:46,919 Getsemine that I was saying, if there's another way to do this, Father, 108 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:50,440 let it be done, But nevertheless, not as I will, but 109 00:08:50,519 --> 00:08:54,960 as thou wilt, Like when Jesus was on the cross, like he is 110 00:08:54,000 --> 00:08:58,320 saying that it would be will have been worth it when he was on the 111 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:01,879 cross, and for those moments he said, my God, my God, 112 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:07,559 why hast thou forsaken me? Like? What have I done? Yes, 113 00:09:07,159 --> 00:09:13,120 it would have been worth it. And when he sees your face, the 114 00:09:13,159 --> 00:09:16,360 face of your children, I want you to dream with me here and then 115 00:09:16,399 --> 00:09:18,879 make the goal to be in the kingdom with him. When he sees the 116 00:09:18,919 --> 00:09:24,399 face of your children, the faces of those who would have listened to you 117 00:09:24,919 --> 00:09:28,240 through the power of the Holy Spirit and said yes to God, he will 118 00:09:28,320 --> 00:09:33,799 see all of that and say it was well worth it that I suffered and 119 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:37,919 died. But of course Jesus raised himself again as he said he would, 120 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:43,600 and the immeasurable nature of Christ is now in your spiritual bank account. Peace. 121 00:09:45,000 --> 00:09:48,000 Thanks for joining us listening. Friends, Always remember we cannot live by 122 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:52,639 bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. 123 00:09:52,559 --> 00:10:00,320 This has been your daily portion with l David Harris. Make it a great day.