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 Wednesday, February twenty eight, 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 Lesson study series through the Book of
Psalms, and our caption for today is Eternal King of Unrivaled Power. Eternal
King of unrivaled Power. We'll get into that in just a moment, but
before we do, I'd like to say welcome to everyone joining us, especially
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com. This is the way that we build faith and fellowship. Let's go
ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father and Heaven,
thank you for this day and for the privilege you have entrusted to us to
open your word again. Please help us to see you as the king of
the universe, to see Jesus firmly enthroned. Please teach us to serve you
with everything we have in our In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and
Amen again. I think that what happens sometimes or oftentimes when we are studying
the Bible is sometimes we study for facts. Oftentimes we study for facts and
figures what is true about a thing. And then we sometimes feel satisfied and
say, Okay, I have identified whatever it is the subject matter in our
study. Wonderful, I've done that. Tick, got the box ticked,
and I'm good to go move on to the next subject. But what God
wants us to do is to study and worship both and at the same time.
I said study and worship both and at the same time. And so
we ask God for wisdom to give us understanding and application of the things that
we read, and to engender worship, like to put us in a position
where we appreciate God so much that we worship him and we live holy lives
that that leak out into other people's experiences, so that we can be of
service to them, you see, and of course lead them closer to our
relationship with God. All right, And so today, since we're talking about
Jesus as the king, eternal, king of unrivaled power, this is particularly
important. Why because it's easy for us to just see Jesus as a figure
like a spiritual figure in the scriptures or some kind of avatar, right in
line with other prophets from all over to who knows where. But God is
saying that he is King of kings and Lord of lords, and we have
the privilege of serving him until Jesus comes. Okay, And so we're going
to begin with just a few of the teachings from these Psalms, and then
we'll open it up just a little bit more. And so in the Book
of Psalms, chapter two, I read in verse eight, ask me,
and I will give you the nations as your inheritance, the ends of the
earth as your personal property. See, it doesn't even make sense for anyone
to set up themselves as king over Jesus. You're like Dave, who does
that? Come on? Well, there are plenty of narcissistic leaders that have
lived on planet Earth since time immemorial. Yeah, let's see. Nebukud Nezar
was one of them. Even though God gave him a vision of how things
would happen in successive kingdoms of rises and falls of regimes, this man decided
that he didn't believe the prophecy and he was gonna thumb his nose at God
and he was going to be the eternal king. Well God, God humbled
him through a number of means, but through seven years of humility until nebukud
Nezer understood because he asked early on in the experience, like who is this
God that I should worship him? Or who is this God that will deliver
you? Right? And God said, Okay, what I'm going to do
is I'm going to invite myself into your situation and I'm going to introduce myself,
and I'm telling you the most positive possible outcome was the reality he became
a worshiper. But not everybody does so so in this case we see Christ
portrayed as the anointed king, destined to rule over all nations, even though
in some cases it looks like he's the humble, the humble son of God
as he lived and walked on planet Earth. But that is really the beauty
of it. He humbled himself so that he could save us from our sins,
and as a result, or I should say part of the result,
is he's king of kings and lord of lords. He is established as the
prophecies would have predicted, as the one who ascends the throne of David.
The question really is is he on the throne of my life? When I'm
making decisions every day about my money, my relationships, huh, about all
of the other things that I have to experience, when I'm exercising, eating,
when I'm interacting with people, and sometimes people are disrespectful to me?
Is he the king on the throne of my life? That's the question,
because we easily can identify in these passages all over, really that Jesus is
exactly who we said that he is. But is he the king of my
life? I crown thee Now thine shall the glory be? Can you hear
that that him in your mind too. Yeah, let's die forget thy thorn,
crowned brow, lead me to Calvary. That is the goal to be
connected to God in that regard. Okay, And so we go now to
the Book of Psalms, chapter one hundred and ten and verse one. Here
is the Lord's proclamation to my lord, sit down at my right hand until
I make your enemies your footstool. And so we see Jesus. We see
Jesus sitting depicted at God's right hand, signifying supreme honor and authority. You
see, sometimes people will come and knock on your door and say that they
want to talk to you about a number of really complicated things. And then
they will come and then begin to share with you about God, our Father,
and then minimize Jesus Christ as some kind of second class spiritual citizen.
But the Bible is teaching us that Jesus is equal with the Father. He
has always been equal with the Father. But he humbled himself in the context
of this plan of salvation when he lived on planet Earth for thirty three and
a half years so he could save us from our sins. But as Micah
chapter five says, like he's eternal. He's always been here. He created
the worlds according to Hebrews one and John chapter one and other places. And
so now, in the context of the whole story, including him humbling himself
on planet Earth for those years, we see that Jesus is firmly established as
at the right pace hand of power and honor and authority, as we can
see also in the Book of Revelation chapters four and five. Maybe we'll drill
those in a day or two, okay, And so now we go down
to Psalm chapter eighty nine and verse four. I will give him an eternal
dynasty and make his throne as enduring as the sky above. And so we
see the supremacy of Christ again. We can go down one more to the
Book of Psalms chapter one hundred and ten and verse five. Oh, Sovereign
Lord, at your right hand, he strikes down kings in the day he
unleashes his anger. So we see Christ as the mighty warrior king who executes
judgment Daniel chapter eleven. We see all kinds of powers and alliances standing up
and sitting down. And you've heard me say this before, standing up and
sitting down. All of these king, kings and kingdoms from Daniel chapter two
and other places, up and down, up and down. They're here today,
gone tomorrow. Stand up, sit down. And then we see in
the Book of Daniel chapter twelve, where Jesus Christ he stands up, he
stands for his people, He does what he has promised to do. He
delivers us, he goes through judgment with us. He definitely begins to exalt
us in the next time that we see Jesus sit down, it's not to
pass off the scene, but to sit down firmly upon the throne as king
of kings and lord of lords. Again, the question is, does this
eternal king of unrivaled power have the throne of your life? For my 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,