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 Sabbath. It's
May three, twenty twenty five. 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 how to Study Bible Prophecy. Our caption
four this Sabbath morning is understanding Sacrifice under Sacrifice. Before
we get into that, I'd like to say welcome to
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Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
Father and Heaven. Thank you for this new Sabbath morning
and for the opportunity we have to not just open
your word, but begin to live by your spirit through
your word. I pray God that you will give us
the fullness of your Holy Spirit. Help us not only
to just understand the prophecies the sacrifices, but become living sacrifices,
holy and acceptable unto you. Then Jesus name, I pray
Amen day Man again understanding sacrifice. This makes me think
I actually wrote it in my notes. This makes me think,
what shall I render to God? For all of his
blessings or his benefits? Do you remember that him? What
shall I render? And in fact, there are some other
Christian songs that are based on that same concept. What
shall I render for all of his blessings all of
his benefits? Because Jesus gave everything. Jesus gave everything for me,
He gave everything for you. The risk was incalculable when
Jesus Christ took on the form of a human being.
After four thousand years, the human race had been degraded
by sin Jesus coming into human flesh and living the
life that we should be living, dying the death that
we deserve in order for us to receive the benefits
the eternity, the power that he deserves. Let's go ahead
and just jump right into the Bible Book of Revelation,
Revelation chapter five, and I admit this is one of
my favorite scenes in the scriptures. Chapters four and five
are among my favorite scenes. And the Bible reads and
they sang a new song saying you are worthy to
take the scroll and to open its seals, for you
were slain, and ye have redeemed us to God by
your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people
and nation. This is coming in from Revelation chapter five,
verse nine. And in this scene it is a worship scene,
a worshipful scene in heaven, and there are number of
different kinds of beings there represent it. But the challenge
is that there is a book with seals, seven seals
that nobody can touch, nobody can look therein, nobody can
look there on, and there is weeping in heaven to say,
but who is worthy to open up this book and
the seals and to take make a long story short,
because we're not focusing focusing there. The Bible says that
Jesus laid hold after there was an announcement like don't
you worry, fret not, don't worry, don't worry. The lamb,
the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, the one who gave
his life for human beings. He is worthy not only
to look thereon, not only to look therein, not only
to unseal, but to take that out, take that out
of the Father's hand, and now there is rejoicing and
worship in the heavenly scene. What is identified as making
him worthy, the fact that he gave his life worthy
is the lamb worthy. Worthy is the lamb that was slain,
and he gave himself for every human being from every tribe, tongue, kindred,
nation and people. And by the way the universe, the
universe benefits those heavenly beings who never fell into sin.
They benefit those beings that we don't really know about
too much about that are from other planets. And I'm
not talking about Martians. I'm talking about The Bible says
that Jesus created the world whoever those beings are, maybe
we could see a representation of that in the Bible
Book of Job. But whoever the beings are, in the
expanse of the universe that God created, these intelligent beings,
all are benefiting because of what Jesus did. Okay, I
wish I had the time, but just continue from the
lesson writer. When Jesus came toward him, John the Baptist declared,
behold the Lamb of God. This was when John was
in the Jordan River. This is fulfillment of prophecy during
the seventy Weeks of Years prophecies in the Book of Daniel.
The Bible says that when Jesus was approaching the spot
where where John was baptizing, he said, behold the Lamb
of God, which taketh away the sins of the world.
In John chapter one and verse twenty nine, so something
someone has to die, So John makes allusion to those sacrifices,
the lamb, the lamb, the lamb of God. Okay, the
Lamb of God. They were accustomed to giving sacrifices, but
this lamb is taking away the sins of the world.
So no normal animal sacrifices as represented in Leviticus, chapters
one through seven. None of those sacrifices are sufficient to
destroy sin in a human life. None of them are
sufficient to pay the penalty of those sins. But they
were representative of someone, someone who took the responsibility. It
is a godly lesson of God taking responsibility for sin
so that he could save you, he could save me.
And so we're going now to a few lessons. Let's
see how many we can share about Jesus being the
sacrificial lamb and sacrifices. Number one, recognize the significance of
the sacrifice. We cannot just brush by it. We can't
just run by it. We can't see that scene in
John chapter one and verse twenty nine and say, oh,
that was wonderful. It was a historic event. And John
knew who he was based on filling the blank and
he announced it.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: The sacrificial system culminating in Christ as the Lamb of God.
God teaches us the cost of sin and the depth
of God's love. What in the world is the weight
of sin? If it required the life of the one
who is my life, Jesus Christ, would you get that?
How incredible, how terrible is sin that it would require
the life of Jesus Christ in order to save me.
And so what I want you to do is to
meditate regularly on Revelation chapter five and John chapter one,
especially verse twenty nine, to begin to become to imbibe
the reality of what it took to save me and
how worthy Jesus is. Now there is the infinite love
of God. The ultimate sacrifice of Christ is a direct
manifest station of the love of God. Remember, for God
so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son,
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have
everlasting life. Yes, okay, And so what we want to
do also is read from first John, chapter four and
verse ten, furthering the thought herein is love, not that
we loved God, but that He loved us and sent
his son to be a propitiation for our sins. And
of course we have gratitude. I have seven things that
you should keep in mind I should keep in mind.
Ask for it inside of the community, and I'll share
that list with you. Make it a great rest of
your sabbath. Peace.
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,