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 Tuesday, August thirteen,
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 lesson number
seven in our Lesson study series through the Book of Mark,
and our caption for today is the Mountain and the Multitude.
The Mountain and the Multitude. We'll get into that in
just a moment, but first I'd like to say welcome
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and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and then we
will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for giving
us the opportunity to see your ministry at work. Please
teach us to model or emulate what we see. Help
us to live like Jesus lived while he was on
planet Earth. Father, and Jesus diay my pray, Amen and
Amen again the mountain and the multitude. Now, Jesus had
so much work to do when he lived on Earth.
Saving people from our sins is no light matter like
that is not a joke. It's not tiny, it's not small.
It's not a simple task. But he took and stride
because why he was reliant upon his father, and he
was on a mission. He had a singular focus to
seek and to save that which was lost. And of
course that focus glorified his father, which was in heaven,
which is in heaven. And so we read now with
that in mind, from the Book of Mark chapter nine,
beginning at verse one, and see what we can glean
from these lessons and the Bible reads and he said,
unto them, verily, I say unto you, that there be
some of them that stand here which shall not taste
of death till they see, until they have seen the
Kingdom of God come with power. Jesus is about to
reveal something massive. In not so long, He's going to
reveal something massive. And after six days Jesus taketh with
him Peter and James and John, and leadeth them up
into a high mountain apart by themselves. Where were they
in a mountain? The mountain in the multitude, the mountain
in the multitude? Where were they they were in the
mountain with whom were they in the mountain with Jesus?
Have you ever seen anybody in a mountain with Jesus
in the Bible, I'm saying, anybody in the mount with Jesus.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: I think Moses was in the mountain with Jesus and
was enfolded into a cloud. Oh I think Joshua was
up there with Moses on one of those occasions, and
he experienced God in a special way. And sometimes we
don't realize this, but Joshua was being primed and ready
for taking over from Moses. And Moses. Neither Moses nor
Joshua knew this. But that's a different story. So when
you see God's people going into a mountain with Jesus,
then something is about to happen. And in this case,
when you see Peter and James and John together doing
anything with Jesus, you know something spectacular is about to happen.
And so the Bible says that he was transfigured. He
was transfigured before them. So when he said that you
will see the Kingdom come, some people will see the
kingdom come, they were getting a foretaste of the kingdom
right there. To be transfigured means that he was. He
appeared as dazzling brightness, just like you would expect a
heavenly being to appear. You remember when Moses said, if
I have found glory, if I have found favor with you,
show me your glory, and Jesus said, there shall no
man see me and live. So he allowed Moses to
experience the glory before the time, but it was a
distilled version, just so that that he could experience it
but and not die. But that experience that Moses had
was so incredible that it actually changed how Moses looked.
It changed how Moses looked like his countenance was so
bright that the people of God said, cover that up,
like because of their lack of faith. But that's a
different discussion. Cover that up. I can't take that brightness,
put a veil over your face. But he was reflecting
the brightness of God. And so Jesus is now transfigured
before them, brighter than any fuller, as the Bible says
could have whitened. Okay, and his raiment here it is,
his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow, as no
fuller on earth can white them. That is no cleaner
if you want to say detergent verse four. And there
appeared unto them Elias. Who is that? Elijah? They saw
with their real eyes, the real man of God, who
did not ever taste death, but God took him into
heaven in chariots of fire. And who else did they see?
They saw? They saw Elias and Moses. So Elijah and Moses.
Bible says in the Bible Book of Jude that Jesus
and the devil contended over the body of Moses, and
of course Jesus won. He won. He rebuked the devil.
He said, the Lord rebuke you, Satan. And of course
we know now that Moses was resurrected. So Elijah, who
never saw death experience death and Moses, who did die
but was raised, now stand as representatives, representatives of those
who will go to heaven one day and then the
earth made knew first the people who will be what
we call translated who are alive and remain, as Paul
describes it, when Jesus comes, those who are alive and
remain will be caught up together with them who's the them,
people like Moses who were once dead but now raised incorruptible.
And so those who are alive and remain will also
go to heaven together with those who were dead that
were God's people and raised. And together we go to
heaven and invest a thousand years until we get the reward,
which is the earth made new. I hope that made sense.
I know I'm speaking quickly. We have to run along.
And then the Bible says here that they and they
were talking to Jesus. Can you imagine the kind of
encouragement that Elijah and Moses were giving Jesus. Can you
imagine it was not like what Peter did yesterday we
discussed it where he rebuked Jesus saying that you will
not do what you just said, do you will not
give your life. The people won't hate you, they won't
persecute you, or whatever it is that he was saying.
But these men of God understood their assignment. They came down,
they spoke with Jesus. What do you think that they
were talking about? Can you imagine? If Jesus failed? God
forbid banished the thought. But if Jesus failed on his mission,
then Elijah, who had been living in heaven for thousands
of years, would have to come back and then be punished,
sentenced to each other dial death. Moses, who had been
living in heaven for thousands of years, would have been
taken out of heaven and then condemned, punished. And Jesus
is now getting encouragement from these men. This is what
I see in my mind. I see him, I see
them encouraging Jesus. Verse five. And Peter answered and said,
unto Jesus, Master, it is good for us to be here.
Let us make three tabernacles, one for thee, one for Moses,
and one for Elijah. And he wish not what to say,
for they were sore afraid, and there was a cloud
that overshadowed them, and a voice that came out of
the cloud, saying, this is my beloved son. Hear him.
So now, Father God is putting his stamp of approval
on Jesus, just like he did at the Jordan River
verse eight. And suddenly, when they had looked around about,
they saw no man anymore save Jesus, only with themselves.
And as they came down from the mountain, he charged
them that they should tell no man what things they
had seen till the Son of Man were raised from
the dead. And they kept that, saying to themselves, questioning
one with another what the rising of the raising of
the dead should mean. And he asked them, saying, why
say the scribes that Elias must first come? And he
answered and told them, Elias verily is cometh first, and
restoreth all things. And now, as it is written of
the Son of Man that we must he must suffer
many things and be set at naught. And I say
unto you, Elias is indeed come, and they have done
unto him whatsoever they desired. Make it a great day.
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,