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Most of us eat every day,
some of us too much, because yesterday's

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food is not enough to supply energy
for today's needs. Why then, do

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some of us expect yesterday's portion of
heavenly manna the word of God to keep

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us through today's challenges. On this
program, we are going to change all

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of that. Let's experience God's words
today and receive the power we need to

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live healthy, vibrant lives. Welcome
to Your Daily Portion with your host,

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author speaker Elle David Harris. Good
morning, Good morning, Good morning.

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It is Wednesday, February twenty eight, twenty twenty four. Hello, my

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name is El David Harris. I
am your host, and this is your

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Daily Portion where we give you God's
word every single day, and today is

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no exception. We are continuing in
our Lesson study series through the Book of

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Psalms, and our caption for today
is Eternal King of Unrivaled Power. Eternal

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King of unrivaled Power. We'll get
into that in just a moment, but

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before we do, I'd like to
say welcome to everyone joining us, especially

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those joining us for the very first
time. Please go over to your Daily

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com. This is the way that
we build faith and fellowship. Let's go

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ahead and pray, and then we
will get underway. Father and Heaven,

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thank you for this day and for
the privilege you have entrusted to us to

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open your word again. Please help
us to see you as the king of

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the universe, to see Jesus firmly
enthroned. Please teach us to serve you

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with everything we have in our In
Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and

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Amen again. I think that what
happens sometimes or oftentimes when we are studying

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the Bible is sometimes we study for
facts. Oftentimes we study for facts and

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figures what is true about a thing. And then we sometimes feel satisfied and

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say, Okay, I have identified
whatever it is the subject matter in our

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study. Wonderful, I've done that. Tick, got the box ticked,

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and I'm good to go move on
to the next subject. But what God

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wants us to do is to study
and worship both and at the same time.

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I said study and worship both and
at the same time. And so

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we ask God for wisdom to give
us understanding and application of the things that

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we read, and to engender worship, like to put us in a position

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where we appreciate God so much that
we worship him and we live holy lives

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that that leak out into other people's
experiences, so that we can be of

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service to them, you see,
and of course lead them closer to our

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relationship with God. All right,
And so today, since we're talking about

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Jesus as the king, eternal,
king of unrivaled power, this is particularly

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important. Why because it's easy for
us to just see Jesus as a figure

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like a spiritual figure in the scriptures
or some kind of avatar, right in

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line with other prophets from all over
to who knows where. But God is

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saying that he is King of kings
and Lord of lords, and we have

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the privilege of serving him until Jesus
comes. Okay, And so we're going

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to begin with just a few of
the teachings from these Psalms, and then

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we'll open it up just a little
bit more. And so in the Book

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of Psalms, chapter two, I
read in verse eight, ask me,

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and I will give you the nations
as your inheritance, the ends of the

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earth as your personal property. See, it doesn't even make sense for anyone

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to set up themselves as king over
Jesus. You're like Dave, who does

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that? Come on? Well,
there are plenty of narcissistic leaders that have

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lived on planet Earth since time immemorial. Yeah, let's see. Nebukud Nezar

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was one of them. Even though
God gave him a vision of how things

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would happen in successive kingdoms of rises
and falls of regimes, this man decided

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that he didn't believe the prophecy and
he was gonna thumb his nose at God

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and he was going to be the
eternal king. Well God, God humbled

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him through a number of means,
but through seven years of humility until nebukud

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Nezer understood because he asked early on
in the experience, like who is this

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God that I should worship him?
Or who is this God that will deliver

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you? Right? And God said, Okay, what I'm going to do

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is I'm going to invite myself into
your situation and I'm going to introduce myself,

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and I'm telling you the most positive
possible outcome was the reality he became

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a worshiper. But not everybody does
so so in this case we see Christ

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portrayed as the anointed king, destined
to rule over all nations, even though

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in some cases it looks like he's
the humble, the humble son of God

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as he lived and walked on planet
Earth. But that is really the beauty

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of it. He humbled himself so
that he could save us from our sins,

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and as a result, or I
should say part of the result,

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is he's king of kings and lord
of lords. He is established as the

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prophecies would have predicted, as the
one who ascends the throne of David.

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The question really is is he on
the throne of my life? When I'm

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making decisions every day about my money, my relationships, huh, about all

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of the other things that I have
to experience, when I'm exercising, eating,

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when I'm interacting with people, and
sometimes people are disrespectful to me?

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Is he the king on the throne
of my life? That's the question,

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because we easily can identify in these
passages all over, really that Jesus is

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exactly who we said that he is. But is he the king of my

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life? I crown thee Now thine
shall the glory be? Can you hear

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that that him in your mind too. Yeah, let's die forget thy thorn,

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crowned brow, lead me to Calvary. That is the goal to be

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connected to God in that regard.
Okay, And so we go now to

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the Book of Psalms, chapter one
hundred and ten and verse one. Here

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is the Lord's proclamation to my lord, sit down at my right hand until

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I make your enemies your footstool.
And so we see Jesus. We see

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Jesus sitting depicted at God's right hand, signifying supreme honor and authority. You

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see, sometimes people will come and
knock on your door and say that they

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want to talk to you about a
number of really complicated things. And then

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they will come and then begin to
share with you about God, our Father,

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and then minimize Jesus Christ as some
kind of second class spiritual citizen.

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But the Bible is teaching us that
Jesus is equal with the Father. He

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has always been equal with the Father. But he humbled himself in the context

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of this plan of salvation when he
lived on planet Earth for thirty three and

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a half years so he could save
us from our sins. But as Micah

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chapter five says, like he's eternal. He's always been here. He created

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the worlds according to Hebrews one and
John chapter one and other places. And

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so now, in the context of
the whole story, including him humbling himself

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on planet Earth for those years,
we see that Jesus is firmly established as

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at the right pace hand of power
and honor and authority, as we can

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see also in the Book of Revelation
chapters four and five. Maybe we'll drill

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those in a day or two,
okay, And so now we go down

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to Psalm chapter eighty nine and verse
four. I will give him an eternal

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dynasty and make his throne as enduring
as the sky above. And so we

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see the supremacy of Christ again.
We can go down one more to the

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Book of Psalms chapter one hundred and
ten and verse five. Oh, Sovereign

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Lord, at your right hand,
he strikes down kings in the day he

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unleashes his anger. So we see
Christ as the mighty warrior king who executes

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judgment Daniel chapter eleven. We see
all kinds of powers and alliances standing up

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and sitting down. And you've heard
me say this before, standing up and

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sitting down. All of these king, kings and kingdoms from Daniel chapter two

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and other places, up and down, up and down. They're here today,

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gone tomorrow. Stand up, sit
down. And then we see in

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the Book of Daniel chapter twelve,
where Jesus Christ he stands up, he

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stands for his people, He does
what he has promised to do. He

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delivers us, he goes through judgment
with us. He definitely begins to exalt

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us in the next time that we
see Jesus sit down, it's not to

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pass off the scene, but to
sit down firmly upon the throne as king

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of kings and lord of lords.
Again, the question is, does this

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eternal king of unrivaled power have the
throne of your life? For my thanks

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for joining us listening. Friends,
Always remember we cannot live by bread alone,

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but by every word that comes from
the mouth of God. This has

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been your daily portion with el David
Harris, Make it a great day. Yeah,