1 00:00:01,199 --> 00:00:05,599 Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, because yesterday's 2 00:00:05,639 --> 00:00:10,480 food is not enough to supply energy for today's needs. Why then, do 3 00:00:10,599 --> 00:00:15,039 some of us expect yesterday's portion of heavenly manna, the word of God to 4 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:19,879 keep us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going to change 5 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:25,039 all of that. Let's experience God's words today and receive the power we need 6 00:00:25,079 --> 00:00:30,839 to live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, 7 00:00:31,039 --> 00:00:34,280 author speaker, Elle David Harris. Good morning, Good morning, Good 8 00:00:34,280 --> 00:00:38,960 morning. It is Tuesday, April sixteen, twenty twenty four. Hello, 9 00:00:39,079 --> 00:00:41,719 my name is El David Harris. I am your host, and this is 10 00:00:41,799 --> 00:00:46,240 your Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single day, and today 11 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:51,520 is no exception. We are continuing in our Lesson study series the Great Controversy, 12 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:57,799 and our caption for today is safeguarded by the word. Safeguarded by the 13 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,079 word. We'll get into that in jil a moment, but first I'd like 14 00:01:00,119 --> 00:01:03,480 to say welcome to you and ask you to please go over to your Daily 15 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:08,519 Portion dot com. Please join our online community, pick up your Daily Portion 16 00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:11,879 book, and let us know where you are in the world. At your 17 00:01:12,040 --> 00:01:17,280 Daily Portion dot com. This is a way that we continue to build faith 18 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:22,519 and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. 19 00:01:23,079 --> 00:01:25,599 Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this new day and for 20 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:27,879 the privilege that we have to open your word again. And I pray that 21 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:32,959 we will relish your word like we will hold your words so dear and true 22 00:01:33,000 --> 00:01:37,359 to our hearts, that we will not sin against you. In Jesus name, 23 00:01:37,439 --> 00:01:42,599 I pray, Amen and Amen again, well safeguarded by the word of 24 00:01:42,640 --> 00:01:51,040 God. Now Jesus, Jesus, when he was just about done with his 25 00:01:51,280 --> 00:01:56,280 mission on earth as a human, I wanted to be very specific and careful 26 00:01:56,359 --> 00:02:00,599 as I as I share this. But as he was doing so, he 27 00:02:01,239 --> 00:02:06,159 prayed what we should really be calling the Lord's prayer like that was that was 28 00:02:06,239 --> 00:02:09,800 his prayer, like his prayer. I know, I'm really messing around with 29 00:02:09,919 --> 00:02:15,080 your mind right there, But this is what Jesus prayed. He prayed to 30 00:02:15,159 --> 00:02:20,120 the Lord, and one of the parts of his discussion had to do with 31 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:25,360 you, brothers and sisters. We call it the mediatorial or high priestly prayer 32 00:02:25,439 --> 00:02:30,599 of Jesus, and it begins, well, this part of it begins here 33 00:02:30,680 --> 00:02:36,159 in verse fifteen of the Book of John, chapter seventy seventeen. I pray 34 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:42,080 that thou shouldst take them. I pray not that thou shouldst take them out 35 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:46,599 of the world, but thou shouldest keep them from evil. They are not 36 00:02:46,759 --> 00:02:52,879 of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctified them 37 00:02:53,159 --> 00:02:55,719 through thy truth. This is one of my favorite passages. Right here. 38 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:00,039 Thy word is truth, lon Let me read it again. Let me read 39 00:03:00,039 --> 00:03:06,000 it again from the New English translation. I am not asking you to take 40 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:10,680 them out of the world, but that you keep them safe from the evil 41 00:03:10,719 --> 00:03:15,840 one. See. This is Jesus speaking to his father as he knows he's 42 00:03:15,879 --> 00:03:21,759 about to give his life, and it's going to be devastating and painful, 43 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:27,719 the separation that Jesus is about to feel and experience, the separation from God, 44 00:03:27,759 --> 00:03:34,520 our fathers, as he takes on the guilt that is ours because he 45 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:38,159 never sinned, not even one time. But he took on the sin and 46 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:45,199 the shame and the guilt of all human beings on his back. And he 47 00:03:45,280 --> 00:03:49,360 was preparing for that time, but he needed to talk to his father first. 48 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:52,360 This is one of the times that he spoke to his father's one of 49 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:54,120 the many, many, many times that he spoke to his father. And 50 00:03:54,159 --> 00:03:59,680 I find it very intriguing, and not just intriguing. I'm endeared to God 51 00:04:00,159 --> 00:04:06,159 because Jesus found it in him to talk to God about us. He understood 52 00:04:06,479 --> 00:04:13,599 now through his human experience, what difficulty we face with temptations and trials, 53 00:04:13,639 --> 00:04:18,199 with the false teachings of people who are supposed to be leading us. Jesus 54 00:04:18,240 --> 00:04:23,319 spoke about it in John chapter ten, and we also referenced it yesterday when 55 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:26,800 the apostle was preparing the church for his own departure and say, hey, 56 00:04:26,879 --> 00:04:30,600 listen, there were going to be people coming in from among you. Really 57 00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:36,120 that are our wolves in sheep's clothing, And Jesus, knowing this, is 58 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:40,759 saying, but Father, I don't I'm not I'm not going to do I'm 59 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:44,600 going to I'm not going to pray like some people will pray in the last 60 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:47,160 days. If you all will permit me here, how will some people feel? 61 00:04:47,199 --> 00:04:51,439 Like? The only way that God can preserve us is if he removes 62 00:04:51,519 --> 00:04:57,079 us from trials. When you're in your deepest trials and tribulations, when you're 63 00:04:57,079 --> 00:05:03,240 in your craziest, most difficult temptations, Remember Jesus prayed not that we would 64 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:11,040 be removed. Think about those young hebrew men Hannah and Ayah, Michel Azariah. 65 00:05:11,079 --> 00:05:15,120 As they were thrown into the fiery furnace. God could have delivered them 66 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:18,560 so they didn't go there. As Daniel was thrown into the lions, then 67 00:05:18,639 --> 00:05:21,959 God could have delivered him so he wouldn't have to go into the lion's den 68 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:26,279 at all. But in those two cases and many more that we could look 69 00:05:26,319 --> 00:05:31,399 at in the Bible, God didn't deliver people. Some people from the trial, 70 00:05:31,879 --> 00:05:36,759 from the temptation, from the heat, he delivered them through. And 71 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:41,720 he delivered them through because He was with them. And so Jesus is saying, 72 00:05:41,759 --> 00:05:45,319 please, I'm not asking you to remove them from the world, but 73 00:05:45,439 --> 00:05:49,000 I am asking you to keep them safe from the devil. They do not 74 00:05:49,199 --> 00:05:54,720 belong to this world, just as I do not belong with the world. 75 00:05:54,759 --> 00:05:59,680 I hear that people are identifying themselves as all kinds of stuff, all kinds 76 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:03,439 of staf plants and animals and all kinds of stuff. I identify myself as 77 00:06:03,439 --> 00:06:08,920 a who knows what right? And I'm thinking, but how come Jesus was 78 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:12,920 so kind to identify himself as a human Yes, he was so kind to 79 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:17,759 identify himself as a human who was not of this world. And therefore these 80 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:24,720 humans filled with the same spirit Jesus speaking now that I am filled with huh, 81 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:29,399 covered by the same power that you Father are covering me, and having 82 00:06:29,439 --> 00:06:34,040 the protection and guidance of angels that you have entrusted to these people. They 83 00:06:34,160 --> 00:06:39,120 don't have to be removed from the world. You can protect them. And 84 00:06:39,399 --> 00:06:43,759 I am not of this world, and I was protected. That means that 85 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:47,959 they can live like I lived. They can be victorious like I was victorious. 86 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:53,319 Huh. They can overcome and every way that I overcame, as I 87 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:58,319 battled the devil, every moment of my time, against the lust of the 88 00:06:58,360 --> 00:07:01,680 flesh, against the lust of the and against the pride of life. Jesus 89 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:08,480 lived perfectly victoriously, so that you when you were reborn, when you were 90 00:07:08,519 --> 00:07:14,839 reborn like me, when I and I am reborn by the spirit, that 91 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:18,160 we can be victorious in the same way. Let me keep reading, and 92 00:07:18,199 --> 00:07:24,879 then it says verse seventeen, set them apart in the truth, set them 93 00:07:24,920 --> 00:07:30,920 apart. The truth is special everybody. The truth is is God's words to 94 00:07:30,040 --> 00:07:32,800 us. His word is truth. We read that in just a moment, 95 00:07:32,879 --> 00:07:40,519 right, his ten commandments are truth. Yes, and Jesus himself is the 96 00:07:40,600 --> 00:07:43,639 truth. We read about that the other day. But it says set them 97 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:48,240 apart. In the truth, your word is truth verse eighteen. This time, 98 00:07:48,480 --> 00:07:54,319 just as you sent me into the world, so I sent them into 99 00:07:54,399 --> 00:07:59,839 the world, and I set myself apart on their behalf, so that they 100 00:08:00,319 --> 00:08:03,959 two may be truly set apart. And so God has given us his word, 101 00:08:05,240 --> 00:08:09,439 the infallible revelation of his will, so that we can live by those 102 00:08:09,519 --> 00:08:13,480 words. And the Bible says that it is inspired by God. The scriptures, 103 00:08:13,519 --> 00:08:18,519 the entire Scripture is inspired by God. It is breathed by God. 104 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:22,279 It is profitable for doctrine. And I don't want you to be afraid of 105 00:08:22,319 --> 00:08:26,439 that term. That is Bible teaching, simply Bible teaching. I know that 106 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:31,600 even the Fellowship of Believers that I'm attached to make it seem like doctrine is 107 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:37,919 a certain set of teachings in the Bible, twenty eight of them. No, 108 00:08:37,919 --> 00:08:41,159 no, no, no, no. Doctrine is the Bible teaching, 109 00:08:41,679 --> 00:08:48,679 full stop. So it is profitable for Bible teaching, for reproof, for 110 00:08:48,919 --> 00:08:56,000 correction, for instruction in righteousness, so that people of God may be perfect. 111 00:08:56,759 --> 00:09:01,159 Huh. Just like Jesus truly furnished to all good works, so we 112 00:09:01,240 --> 00:09:05,480 are able to do good works. We are able to be holy, We 113 00:09:05,519 --> 00:09:09,240 are able to be perfect. For God, our Father, is perfect, 114 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:13,480 for Jesus is perfect. I wish I had the time to deal with what 115 00:09:13,519 --> 00:09:16,559 that actually means. What the truth is that God has given his word, 116 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:24,360 He has breathed it into our lives and written it on our fleshy heart tables. 117 00:09:24,399 --> 00:09:28,559 If we are willing to receive it so that we can live like Jesus 118 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:31,960 live. You understand that is the safeguard. So embrace the word of God, 119 00:09:33,039 --> 00:09:37,360 Jesus Christ. H Embrace the word of God, the Ten Commandments law, 120 00:09:37,679 --> 00:09:41,399 embrace the word of God, the entire compositive scriptures, and you will 121 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:46,720 be safe. Wonderful day. Peace. Thanks for joining us listening. Friends. 122 00:09:46,000 --> 00:09:50,320 Always remember we cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that 123 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:54,559 comes from the mouth of God. This has been your daily portion with el 124 00:09:54,720 --> 00:10:00,279 David Harris. Make it a great day. Yeah.