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 one,
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 our
caption for today is I have given you an example. Yes,
I have given you an example. We'll get into that
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Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
Father and Heaven, Thank you for giving us this new
morning and for this new month. Thank you for giving
us all of the power, all of the guidance, all
of the strength, all of the light that we need. Father,
and I pray that we will receive these things by faith.
Receive you by faith in Jesus name, I pray, Amen
and a man, I have given you an example now
when I was a new elder many years ago. Elders,
for those who are new to this community are in
our context, leaders of God's people, who take care of
God's people in things related to our spiritual lives, sometimes
our personal development, sometimes relationships, the things that matter so
that we can get closer to God. Okay, so I'll
just keep it as simple as that. But as a
new one of those I remember an elder elder, an
elder elder saying that before an individual accepts Christ into
our lives, Okay, I want you to hear the timing
on this. Before an individual accepts Christ into his or
her life, Jesus is their savior, our savior, and that's
you know, the savior. He's a savior of the world.
Yes we know. But once a person is reborn, he
also becomes our example. Okay, So before we know God,
before we are submitted to his will, he is our savior,
and then and then he is our example. Okay. So
I'm grateful because once we are in our new birth experience,
we have the power to do God's will. This is
the thing. We can't follow him unless we know him.
All right. Let me just pause right there and begin
reading in John chapter thirteen, beginning at verse one, and
the Bible reads just before the Passover feast, Jesus knew
that his time had come to depart from this world
to the Father. Having loved his own who were in
the world, he now loved them to the very end.
The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had
already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son
that he should betray Jesus. See, he had not accepted Jesus.
You see, so Jesus's example is nothing to Judas because
because Judas is not one of God's children. I wish
I had the time, But the Bible continues, Jesus knew
that the Father had handed all things over to him,
and that he had come from the Father and was
going back to God. He got up from the meal
Verse four, removed his outer clothes, took a towel and
tied it around himself. He poured water into a basin
and began to wash the disciples feet and to dry
them with the towel that he had wrapped around himself.
And he came to Simon Peter. Peter said to him, Lord,
are you going to wash my feet? Jesus replied, you
do not understand what I am doing now, but you
will understand after these things. Peter said, unto him, you
will never wash my feet. Jesus replied, If I do not, you,
you have no share with me. Simon Peter said to him, Lord,
wash not only my feet, but also my hands. In
my head, Jesus replied, the one who has bathed needs
only to wash his feet, but is completely clean. Now,
you disciples are clean, well, not every one of you,
For Jesus knew the one who was going to betray
him for his season. For this reason, excuse me, he said,
not every one of you is clean. So when Jesus
had washed their feet and put his outer clothing back on,
he took his place at the table again and said
to them, do you understand what I have done for you? You
call me teacher and lord, and you and do so correctly,
And for this is what I am. And if then
your lord and teacher, if that's who I am you are,
has washed your feet, you too, aren't to wash one
another's feet, or have given you an example that you
do just what I have done to you. And I
tell you a solemn truth. The slave is not greater
than his master, nor the one who is sent as
the messenger greater than the one who sent him. If
you understand these things, you will be blessed if you
do them. Did you get that? Now? A Bible believing people,
people who speak Christianese, sometimes ministry minded people don't get that.
Sometimes ministry minded people are accustomed to listening and becoming
experts at listening and expounding, or I should say hearing
and expounding, not doing, but hearing and expounding but not doing.
But he said, if you hear these things, you understand
these things. The blessing only comes when you do them. Okay, Okay,
I think I got it. I got it, I got
it Verse eighteen. What I am doing does not refer
to you. What I'm saying does not refer to you.
All I know the ones I have chosen. But this
is to fulfill the scripture. The one who eats my
bread has turned against me. I am telling you this
now before it happens, so that when it happens, you
may believe that I am he. I tell you the
solemn truth. Whoever accepts the one I send accepts me,
and whoever accepts me the one who sent me. Jesus
said a whole lot. Now he knew that the men
that he had had with him, there were twelve of them.
He knew their hearts, and one of them Judas. Jesus
actually said it there, but he didn't. He didn't make
it very very very clear yet. But it was about
to be manifest that Judas had a devil like. Judas
had no interest in actually serving God like. He wanted
to be around God like. He wanted to be a
clout chaser. He wanted to build his social media following
by taking pictures with Jesus saying I'm with him, because
he thought Jesus was going to be the next one
to like to overthrow Rome, you see. So he knew
that that's what was in Judas's heart. And by the way,
Judas was the treasurer, but he was a dishonest treasurer,
so he had the money bag, and he's like, Okay,
i can chase cloud and I can steal money, and
I can do what I want to do with the money.
And therefore this makes sense. Following Jesus makes sense. There
are a lot of people today that are doing the
very same thing. We attach ourselves to what looks like
God and talk about God and make it seem as
if we're really with God, and it's really just to
gain popularity, to get the next office, you see, to
somehow get what comes to people who are seen as
connected with God. And we can be called big names
and titles, and we don't have to really do anything
because in our minds we're attached with it. I'm with him,
I'm with him, pointing to g Jesus, I'm with him.
Whatever Jesus is worthy of, I'm worthy of. And it's
like I am giving you an example of humility. You
see Jesus, who is equal to God. Our father thought
it not robbery to be equal with God. He did
not look on the fact that he was God in
God the Son as a reason to allow us to
just die. He humbled himself and became a servant. He
has given us an example that we should follow in
his footsteps. So today's moral, the moral of this story
is get connected with God for the purpose of serving others.
Stay connected with God, humble yourself and serve others. 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,