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, July fourth, 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 new lesson study series through the Book of Mark.
Our caption for today is the Gospel according to Jesus, The Gospel according to
Jesus. We'll get into that and just the moment, but first I'd like
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fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get under ragh
Father and Heaven. Thank you for this day, for giving us the opportunity
to pray and to do your will. Father, Please help us to hear
the Gospel according to Jesus today and live according to your principles. Help us
to be freed, delivered today, independent from sin. Today in Jesus name,
I pray, Amen and Amen again the Gospel according to Jesus. I
wonder what it would be like how to sit there and listen to Jesus' teach.
What would it be like to sit there or stand as the case may
be, and listen to Jesus actually teach. There are so many great preachers
that we would have heard over the years, over the millennia even, and
so many things have been recorded against their names as mighty feats and miracles based
on the Gospel that they would have preached. But what would have been like
to hear Jesus actually preach. If you saw him, you wouldn't really notice
that he was anything special, just looking at him walking on the streets of
Galilee, like you wouldn't even notice, except maybe that there would be some
followers with him. You're like, well, who is that? But then
when you see what he did, when you experienced his presence, when you
heard him preach the words of righteousness, then it starts to click that this
is no ordinary man, but this is someone hyper super special. And of
course now we know the anointed One, the Messiah, the one who comes
from the bus of God, so we can be saved. Yes, And
so we read now in the Book of Mark, the Book of Mark,
chapter one, beginning at verse fourteen. Now after John was put in prison,
so John really had done what he needed to do in order to prepare
the way for Jesus Christ to come in and begin to lead people to holiness.
John did his part. He prepared the way, and now he's being
moved off the scene. Unfortunately, what a terrible way to go off the
scene, but he did. He did it. Then, the Bible says,
after he was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee preaching the Gospel
of the Kingdom. And so he said, the time is fulfilled. I
want you to keep that in your mind. And the Kingdom of God is
at hand. Okay, and repent, ye and believe the gospel. So
God is showing us that the Kingdom of God is right here within us.
He said at the time, Yes, we're looking for God's God's Kingdom to
come. God's will to be done on earth, that is in the lives
of people as it is in heaven. This is what God wants for us.
This is what we should want from God. And then it says,
repent and believe the gospel. Receive from God as a gift, godly sorrow
for sin and a turning away. Turn the shoulder, walk away from those
sins that have held you back for so many years, those things that you've
been guilty about. You promised yourself and God that you wouldn't go down on
that path again. You wouldn't destroy your relationships in the way that you have
God forbid. You would not have been addicted to these different substances and do
other things that are just not pleasing in God's sight. You would have been
kinder, you would have been a better parent, and so many other things.
And God is saying you can turn away from all of that and more.
You can believe the gospel. Okay, good, So the lesson writer
says that there are three parts to the gospel here, and we'll just say
the same thing again a different way. Number one time prophecy, and he
said, Jesus said, the time is fulfilled. And so we'll go into
Daniel nine in just a moment to give a little bit of context. And
then number two covenant promise. So he made a promise way back when,
and that promise is being fulfilled that the Kingdom of God is near. We're
looking forward to the day that we will enter the heavenly promised land. Those
who are baptized into Christ. The Bible says, I should have said this
yesterday are Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise. So God promised to
Abraham that his people would inhabit the earthly Canaan, and then he would have
descendants or promised land descendants numberless like the sand grain at the seashore, the
skies, stars, starry hosts, like the numberless multitude of people who would
believe and come into a right relationship with God would come through the kind of
faith that Abraham had. Okay, so we have that the Kingdom of God
is at hand, and this is becoming of real fulfillment in front of the
people, and the call to discipleship to be like Jesus and to lead others
into a right relationship with God. What is the call repent, turn away
from your sins, receive the godly sorrow that I can show you, and
turn away from your sins and believe the gospel that will manifest itself and the
way you live. Okay, that's the simplicity of it. We thank God.
Okay. And so the time prophecy part is in the Book of Daniel,
chapter nine. So much is said there. I won't read it,
but I want you to hear what is being spoken of, right, And
so the Bible writer says that from the from the command to rebuild Jerusalem until
Messiah the Prince would be a certain period of time. So I'm going to
just hurry up and tell you what it is. And you can study the
seventy weeks Prophecy from amazingfacts dot Com when you have an opportunity. So from
four hundred and fifty seven BC, that is when our Deserxees gave that final
stamp of approval for God's people to rebuild Jerusalem and to rebuild the temple that
they needed to rebuild from four to fifty seven until four hundred and eighty three
literal years later, we see symbolic language about a day for a year in
symbolic Bible prophecy. A day equals a year in symbolic Bible prophecy according to
numbers fourteen thirty four and as we four to six and other places, and
so four hundred and fifty seven to twenty seven a D. Four fifty seven
BC to four fifty to twenty seven a D is four hundred and eighty three
literal years. And that is when Jesus appears as a fulfillment of this prophecy.
As a fulfillment of this prophecy, Jesus shows up as Messiah the Prince
according to the language of Daniel, meaning the one who has anointed, the
anointed one. Jesus is literally anointed by the Holy Ghost in the Jordan River
when he is going through his baptism experience. Yes, and that was a
fulfillment. Now the world sees Messiah the Christ, the anointed One, for
the first time in that way. Yes, he was thirty years of age.
But now we see him in his public ministry in a way as a
fulfillment of the prophecy. And the thing that I love about this prophecy,
this gospel according to Jesus, going back to Daniel, is that Daniel also
was given a prediction by God. He was given a prediction that three and
a half actual, specific literal years later Jesus would be cut off. He
would be cut off not for himself, but for the people. Three and
a half years later, Jesus would give his life so that we can live
eternally. Jesus would fulfill his mission on earth, at least so he could
say it is finished, in order to save us from our sins. The
gospel according to Jesus was tactical, but it was also practical, and we'll
read and study more about it in the coming days. 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,