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, November five,
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. These themes I said, these themes in the
Gospel of John, and our caption for today is acceptance
and rejection, the reinteresting acceptance and rejection. We'll get into
that in just a moment, but first I'd like to
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we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you for
this day and for the privilege to open up your word.
Thank you for giving us the opportunity to accept you.
Help us to accept you and reject the enemy. In
Jesus's name, I pray, Amen and amen again, acceptance and rejection. Okay,
so we are going into John chapter six, and I
would have mentioned to you several weeks ago. I'm not
even sure if we were even in the Book of
jon As yet, but I mentioned to you that this
is a place. This is one of my favorite places
in scripture. And I know I say that often because
I love the Bible, but this one is really interesting.
And so we begin our reading from John chapter six,
beginning at verse fifty one. And let's see what God
has to say to us here. And it's Jesus speaking,
Jesus speaking. I am the living Bread that came down
from Heaven, the living Bread. If anyone eats from this bread,
he will live forever. The bread that I will give
for the bread that I will give for the life
of the world is my flesh. And so Jesus is
giving us an opportunity to be transformed. You see, you
ever have you ever heard the idiom? What does it say?
You are what you eat? You are what you eat? Well,
Jesus is saying that if we eat of the bread
of life, we will receive life, and will receive life
more abundantly. Okay, And so he wants us to have
his life. No, let's put it this way, like the
hymn writer said it, he wants our life to be
hid within him. He wants to abide in our lives
so that our lives will shine out into the world.
And people will say, well, how can I get that life,
eternal life, eternity with God? How do I get that?
How do I get to the point where I am
being transformed? No longer having to be addicted to substances,
no longer having to be addicted to my own face
or voice with all kinds of pride, no longer having
to be bound by relationships that really do not add
anything of value to my life, just so I could
feel a little better. And so Jesus is saying, those
who ate in the wilderness the manna that quote Moses
gave to them, they died. They died. You know, with
the exception of Joshua and Caleb, every single person who
ate mana that was older than twenty years of age,
all of those individuals died. And he's saying that even
the ones now by the time Jesus is on planet Earth,
even the children twenty years and younger, those individuals died
eventually too. Some died before they and that didn't go
into the Promised Land. And then the ones who did
go into the promised land. They're dead too, and they
ate the manna from heaven. So Jesus is saying, I'm
giving you the kind of bread that will transform your
life verse fifty two. Then the people of God who
are against God, who were hostile to Jesus, began to
argue with one another. How can this man give us
flesh to eat? And Jesus said, unto them, I tell
you the solemn truth. Unless you eat the flesh of
the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have
no life in yourselves. The one who eats my flesh
and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will
raise him up on the last day. For my flesh
is true food, my blood is true drink. Remember I
said you are what you eat. We're I'm talking about literal.
Jesus is not condoning a new religion of cannibalism. This
has nothing to do with what Jesus is saying. He's
saying that I can transform you from the inside out.
From the inside out verse fifty six. The one who
eats my flesh and drinks my blood resides and abides
in me, and I in him. Now we understand where
he's going. Okay, just as the Living Father sent me,
I live because of the Father, So the one who
consumes me will live because of me. So do you
want to be connected to God our Father? Do you
want to live eternally? Do you want to overcome those
dead circumstances, the dead mindsets, the dead relationships on planet
Earth right, the dead time wasters in your daily walk?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Do you want to overcome the dead feelings of inadequacy,
the dead abusive situation that you are allowing to happen
because you need a check at work? Are you open
to living forever? Okay? Verse fifty nine I already shared
with you with fifty eight said Jesus said these things
while he was teaching in the synagogue in Capernium. Then
many of his disciples, when they heard these things, said, Ah,
this is a difficult saying. Who can understand it? Then,
when Jesus was aware that his disciples were complaining about this,
he said to them, does this cause you to be offended?
And what that means is offended in this context means
is this causing you to leave me? Is this causing
you to separate from me? Is this causing you to
no longer want to walk with me and be on
my team and in my family verse sixty two. Then
what if you see the son of Man ascending to
where he was before. The spirit is the one who
gives life. Human nature is of no health. The words
that I have spoken to you, they are spirit and
they are life. But there are some of you who
don't believe. For Jesus had already known from the beginning
those who did not believe, and who it was who
would betray him. We're almost there. We're almost there, so
Jesus added. Because of this, I told you that no
one can come to me unless the Father, unless the
Father has allowed him to come. After this, many of
his disciples offended or quit following him and did not
accompany him any longer. And so Jesus said to the twelve.
Now the closer ones to him. He says, to the twelve,
you don't want to go away to do you? Simon
Peter answered him, Lord, to whom would we go? You
have the words of eternal life. We have come to
believe and to know that you are the Holy One
of God. Jesus replied, didn't I choose you, the twelve?
And yet one of you has the devil not so fast, Peter,
not so fast. There are people who will come and
align in air, quotes themselves with Jesus and act like
they love him just so they can get human and
earthly food. They can get notoriety. And by the way,
didn't I choose you the twelve? And yet one of
you is a devil? Now? He said this about Judas,
the son of Simon Escariot, for Judas, one of the twelve,
was going to betray him. So we get to accept
Christ and live eternally, or if we reject him, that's
on us. That's a silly, silly reason.
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us, listening to 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,