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 Friday preparation day,
November twenty nine, 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.
We are rounding off lesson number nine under the caption
God with Us, God with Us. Oh. Before we get
into that, I'd like to just say welcome to you
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Daily portion dot com. I love that form because it
is giving me an indication of how far and wide
the gospel is being spread. Like, go ahead and type
in the chat. As a matter of fact, as we
are getting ready to pray, where are you in the world?
And I know that there are people on the radio
and two hundred radio stations beyond who is online listening
and watching me here on podcasts, But just type it
in the chat because this encourages me that this Gospel
of the Kingdom shall be preached into all the world
for a witness, and then and only then shall the
end come. And I'm encouraged because the Philippines is finally
taking off, like you're taking off. I finally see traction
there in the Philippines, and I'm grateful. I'm grateful continue
to spread the word there. Let's go ahead and pray. Father,
we thank you for this day of preparation. Please help
us to live your words, help us to live as
in the visible presence of God. In Jesus' name, I pray,
Amen and Amen again. Okay, Well, I'm grateful because God
didn't leave us down here to perish. The Bible says
God so loved the world that he gave his only
begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish,
but have everlasting life. God did not send his son
into the world to condemn the world. Remember we were
reading about this yesterday, not to condemn the world, but
that the world through him might be saved. And so
I'm grateful that God has done all that He in
his holiness can do in order to save people from
our sins. I'm thankful no condemnation if we're in Christ Jesus. Okay,
And so from the lesson writer, Well, there are quotes
in the Lesson from the book Desire of Ages, page
twenty five, and I read here in stooping to take
upon himself humanity. Did you see that word? Did you
hear it? In stooping? That means he's condescending. That means
Jesus is reaching down. It's an infinite humiliation for him,
even if he had taken on the form of humanity
as Adam stood in his innocence in Eden. But after
four thousand years of degradation, Jesus does this. He's stooping
down to take upon him himself humanity. Christ revealed a
character opposite of the character of Satan. He did what
he revealed, a character that is the opposite of Satan.
But he stepped still. But he stepped still lower into
the path of humiliation, being found in the fashion as
a man. He humbled himself and became obedient unto death,
even the death of the cross. You understand, Jesus is life. Remember,
he's the source of life. He's the one who saves us.
He's the one who created us. In him his life,
and in him he's the life, who is also the
light of all humans. And so he is now yielding
himself and becoming obedient to death, even the death of
the cross. And the quote continues as the high priest
laid aside his gorgeous pontifical robes and officiated in the
white linen dress of the common priest. So Christ took
the form of a servant and offered sacrifice himself, the priest,
himself the victim. He was wounded for our transgression. God
help us. He was bruised for our iniquities. The tastisement
of our peace was upon him. May I continue, and
by his stripes we are healed. All we, like sheep,
have gone astray, each and every one of us going
in our own direction, thinking that we can, we can
figure out our own lives without God. Mark out and
tart out our own pathway. Because all roads, according to
some people falsely so lead to God, and all roads
don't lead to God. There was a path of righteousness
that God reveals through Christ. Let me continue the quote
before I get to preaching. Christ was treated as we deserve.
I need you to let that settle. Christ was treated
like we deserve. How do I deserve to be treated?
Do I deserve to be treated like a medallion member
in the American Express and Delta ecosphere? Do I deserve
to be treated as royalty like those who have black
cards are? Do I deserve to be treated like a
diplomat like diplomats actually do? Hmm? Well, when we talk
about it in a spiritual sense, we deserve to be destroyed.
Quite frankly, can I just say that really quickly here,
don't take this lightly. We deserve to be destroyed, and
we deserve to be destroyed with the most painful, ignominious death,
like that is what we deserve because we have chosen
to read in times past to reject God, reject our
very breath, the one who gave all for us. Yeah,
but I'm thankful for this reality that Christ was treated
as we deserve, that we might be treated as he deserves.
He was condemned for our sins in which he had
no share. You see, Jesus never sinned that we might
be justified. That means that we can be seen just
as if we had never sinned. Okay, that we might
be justified by his righteousness in which we had no share.
He suffered the death which was ours that we might
receive the life that was his. With his stripes. We
are healed. That is the end of the quote. I'm grateful.
I am I grateful because God made a way. He
made a way. I feel sad sometimes thinking about what
Jesus went through because of me, He went through because
of you. He never did any wrong, and yet he
was treated like the worst sinner in the universe, and
then died with the burden of that on his shoulders.
The Holy One of God, the one blessed be his name,
who created us, the one who never did any wrong,
became sin for us so that we could not be
fearful of the condemnation that comes to those who are
addicted to pornography. Oh, did I just say that we
need to be practical here, those who have been addicted
to the rum bottle, those who have been addicted to
their own images or sitting in the high places of
churches and having people yield to them and bringing greetings.
Like sometimes people are addicted to our own reflection in
the mirror. We are addicted sometimes to those filters that
make us look lovely on toc TikTok and Instagram. Sometimes
we believe our own press. There's a press release going
out that fill in the blank person from filling the
blank entity is doing this great deed. And now everybody
in a constituency, everybody who is under the pr news wire,
everybody who's in a particular news setting, now knows that
we're so wonderful, and look at what we're doing for
our community. Look at the thing that we did to
help the homeless. Look at the thing that now we
can pat ourselves on the back. Well, really pat on
ourselves on the back for the things that we did
for people during the pandemic. Come on, y'all, God with us,
Jesus coming into human flesh, came to dispel all of
the lies that the devil has told us about God
and the lies we tell ourselves about ourselves. With Jesus
in our lives, we receive by faith the life that
he deserves and escape the condemnation that we deserve.
Speaker 1: 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,