Speaker 1: 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.
Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, Good morning. It is Sunday, December fifteen,
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 themes in the Gospel of John, and I'm
asking you to please go over to your Daily Portion
dot com. Please join our online community. Make sure you
get that Companion guide, the Life Application Guide. It is
still useful even though we're coming to a close in
our Lesson study series. And yeah, let's go ahead and pray.
We're going to talk about what is truth? What is truth?
Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
Father and Heaven, thank you for this Sunday morning, for
the new day that you have entrusted to us, and
the new week for working, working, working, working for the
night comes when no one can work. So Father, please
help us to connect with you and to live truth,
not just talk about it, not just be able to
identify it, but to live the truth in Jesus name,
I pray, Amen and a man again, what is truth?
And so I'm going to read from John chapter eighteen.
I am still like if you look into you look
into our Companion Guide, like I said at your Daily
dot Com, I am still like, really kind of in
my mind about Pilot, like Pilot did not own his responsibility.
When he had the privilege to do the right thing,
he didn't. And I want you to see in the
Companion Guide the impact that that can have on our
personal lives, our spiritual lives, relationship lives, and of course
in our professions. So let me just read from the
Bible here in John chapter eighteen, beginning of verse thirty three,
Then Pilot entered into the judgment hall again and called
Jesus and said unto him, art thou the king of
the Jews. Jesus answered him, saying, thou hast saying thou wait,
sayest thou this thyself? Or did others tell you this
of me? Pilot answered, am I a Jew thine own nation?
And the chief priests have delivered thee unto me? And
what hast thou done? Jesus answered, My kingdom is not
of this world. If my kingdom were of this world,
then would my servants fight that I should not be
delivered to these your God's people. But now is my
kingdom not from this world. Pilot therefore said to him,
art thou the king. Then Jesus answered, thou sayest I'm
a king? To this end was I born? And for
this cause came I into the world, that I should
bear witness unto the truth. Everyone that is of the
truth heareth my voice. Pilots said, unto him, well, what
is truth? And when he said this, he went out
again to the people of God and said, unto them,
I find in him no fault at all. Okay, so
this is a whole big mess. Can I just say that?
Like so now Jesus is had having this one on
one discussion with Pilot in one of these mock trials, right,
and Pilot is trying to get himself out of a mess,
but at the same time trying to say and do
the right thing, and he gets confused because he really
didn't stand ten toes down and do the right thing.
I wish I had the time to deal with this.
But this question about Jesus, is he a king? Is
he a king? You see the people of God while
they were messing up, Can I say that that's understating it.
While they were messing up and missing the truth because
they decided not to connect with God in the deepest way.
I'm talking about the ones that are bringing Jesus here
and carting him, the ones to whom Judas betrayed Jesus
and carting him from mock trial to mock trial. Now
he's here and Pilot is listening to what those people
are saying because they are trying to get the state
or the government to be against Jesus. Well, how do
you do that will make it seem like he's an insurrectionist,
Make it seem as if Jesus is trying to take
over the world through the government, like he's setting himself
up as a king right And so now Pilot is
having this philosophical discussion. But after all is said and done,
he says, I find no fault in him. But in
the meantime, he's like, well, what is truth? And that
is the question that we need to answer. That's the
one with which we must contend. What is the truth?
I know, I know, I use English and sometimes I
use broken English, sometimes I use slang, and I stop
and pause in the middle of sentences and don't complete
my thought. I need you to be very clear this time, however,
that I said, what is the truth? The truth, definite article,
the truth, not your truth, my truth, not a truth,
not truth in a vacuum, the truth, the truth. And
so the Bible does teach us, like Jesus was very
very clear about what truth is, and we need to
be seeking God's face through his word the truth. When
Jesus was praying, he was praying to his father what
we call the high priestly prayer, the mediatorial prayer. I
referenced a little while back. He said, sanctify them, meaning
God's people, his disciples, in the case of the ones
right in front of him and all who would believe,
sanctify them through thy truth. He's praying to God, our father,
through thy truth. Well, what is truth, Jesus? Thy word
is truth. God's word is truth. Do you live, brothers
and sisters, as if God's word is truth in your life?
What I'm saying is, when you open the Bible and
then you read what God has to say, does your
life look like what God has to say? I have
to ask myself the same question, and so seeking truth
in God's word is key to answering and living. The
question that Pilot answered now number two comes from verse fourteen.
I have given them thy word. Jesus is speaking some
more in John seventeen to his father. I have given
them thy word, and the world hath hated them because
they are not of the world, even as I am
not of the world. And so yeah, we have to
embrace Jesus's example of truth, just as he was in
front of Pilot. And Pilot is asking these philosophical questions
that do kind of creep into the realm of spirituality,
and he is not willing to receive and accept the
truth even though his mind and conscience are pricked. His
wife gave him mourning. He in this moment said, I
find no fault in him and so and so. Yeah,
but now we need to actually actively deliberately live out
the truth of God's words. So we ask ourselves when
we look into the scriptures, thy word is truth? Does
my life look like thy word? And then if the
answer is yes, and praise the Lord, we live more
like that. But if not in those key areas that
we're not living the truth living them out in our actions,
then we say, God, I noticed that there is a
disconnect here. I'm seeing because you gave me the Holy
Ghost to see in my moment of despair, like I'm
looking at the Bible and my life is different than
what the Bible teaches. Can you please teach me how
to live your truth, the truth God? And then yeah,
we want to follow, We want to follow the truth. Well,
I mentioned the word of God, the Bible. But let's
go back to John chapter fourteen and verse six. Some
of you were waiting for me to say this, and
Jesus said, unto them, I am the Way, the Truth,
and the life. No one comes to the Father except
by me. And so Jesus is showing his people the pathway,
or anybody really the pathway into a right relationship with God,
our Father. And he's saying, I am the pathway, I
am the truth. I'm the one that is the manifestation
of all that the scriptures teach, and more, I manifest
the full character of all that God represents. And I
am giving you an opportunity to follow me. Follow the
way into the paths of righteousness, follow the way to
be victorious in all key areas of our life, and
then we will know the truth. Peace.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening.
Speaker 2: Friends.
Speaker 1: 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,