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, October 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 the themes of the Gospel of John, and
our caption for today is I can just tell you
one of my favorite signs of divinity. Signs of divinity.
Of course, we're talking about Jesus's divinity. We'll get into
that in just a moment, but first i'd like to
say welcome to you, pardon me, and ask you to
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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
day and for the privilege that we have to come
together on this Sabbath morning and to consider one of
the most holy subjects that we can even begin to
discover in the scriptures. Please help us to be holy
as a result. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and
Amen again, signs of divinity, Signs of divinity. And as
I said already, it was so important for me to
remember to say it. It's in my notes one of
my favorite subjects in scripture, elevating the nature of Christ,
because there are so many people that will try to
bring Jesus down in your mindset. There are people who
will even knock on your door and try to give
you magazines and pamphlets and flyers about things that seem
to be related to godliness. But then when you drill
it some more, you realize that they have degraded Jesus
in their thought process. Yeah, and so one of the
Jesus is the one who gives his life for us.
He gave his life for us. He must be equal
to or greater than the law the ten commandments that
were broken. Okay, so before we go into the scriptures,
I'd like to read. I'd like to read from the
book the Book The Story of Redemption, pages forty seven
and forty eight. It reminded me when I was looking
at this subject. It reminded me of something I read
just about I don't know about thirty years ago, almost
thirty years ago, and it reads the angels related to them,
meaning Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve, the grief that
was felt in heaven as it was announced that they
had transgressed the law of God. We're talking about Adam
and Eve when they broke God's law. Okay, so they
ate the fruit that God said don't eat. And yeah.
The rest is history, which had made it expedient for
Christ to make the great sacrifice of his own precious life. Man,
I just say that again. It made it expedient for
Christ to make the great sacrifice of his own precious life.
Do you remember the song were you there when they
crucified my lord. Yes, so it's my sins that caused that.
When Adam and Eve realized how exalted and sacred was
the law of God, I need you to get this part,
brothers and sisters. When they realized how exalted was the
law of God, hmm, the transgression of which made it
made so costly a sacrifice necessary to save them and
their posterity. That means their bloodline, people who would come
after them, from utter ruin. They pleaded to die themselves.
They realized, Wait a minute, I can't believe that this
is the cost. Are you saying, the one who created
me in unison with God, our father, he has to
give his life because I hate of this fruit that
you forbade me God from eating. Yes, yes, yes, they pled.
They pleaded to die themselves or to let them and
their posterity endure the penalty of their transgression, rather than
that the beloved son of God should make this great sacrifice.
The anguish of Adam was increased he saw that his
sins were of so great magnitude as to involve fearful consequences.
Brothers and sisters, I want you to think about the
love of God. The Bible says, for God so loved
the world that he gave his only begotten son. Now
we're starting to feel how important this is. 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, but that the world through him might
be saved. And I'm so grateful. I'm so grateful. But
Adam was broken hearted. The anguish of Adam was increased.
He saw that his sins were of so great magnitude
as to involve fearful consequensequences. And it must be that
Heaven's honored commander, who is that? Say his name? Jesus,
who had walked with him and talked with him while
in his holy innocence, whom angels honored and worshiped, must
be brought down from his exalted position to die because
of his transgression. Adam was informed that an angel's life,
I need you to hear this. He was informed that
an angel's life could not pay the debt. Why not
the law of Yahweh Blessed be his name. The foundation
of his government in heaven and upon earth was as
sacred as God himself. And for this reason, the life
of an angel could not be accepted of God as
a sacrifice for its transgression the law. His law is
of more importance in his sight than the holy angels
around the throne. The Father could not abolish or change
one precept in his law. We're talking about the Ten
Commandments law. Let's not be confused here. He could not
change or abolish even one precept in his holy law
to meet man in his fallen condition. But the Son
of God, who had, in unison with the Father, created
human beings, could make an atonement for man to God
by giving his life a sacrifice and bearing the wrath
of his father. Angels informed Adam that as his transgression
had brought death and wretchedness, life and immortality would be
brought to light through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Aren't
you glad that God is not like us? Aren't you
glad that Jesus Christ, being divine, being holy, being eternal
with God our Father, would condescend to fix this problem
that only he could fix. Aren't you glad that Jesus
Christ gave himself for us. Yes, it's a fearful thing.
Yes it is saddening and heartbreaking to know that Jesus
would have had to do that, But I'm grateful that
he volunteered. Nobody coerced him, nobody twisted his divine arm,
as if that were even possible. But he did it
for you, He did it for me. And then, of course,
of course, now we read in John chapter eleven and
verse twenty five, Jesus said to her, I am the
Resurrection and the life. Of course, he's speaking to Lazarus's sister,
he who believes in me? Do you believe in Jesus,
brothers and sisters, he who believes in me. I'm talking
about all of his divine essence and the fact that
he condescended and became as a human in order to
save us. Do you believe in him? That he has
the power to deliver you? He said, He who believes
in me, though he may die, he shall live. And
whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do
you believe this, brothers and sisters. The one who is
equal to God, our father, he's the one who became
obedient unto the cross, the death of the cross. He
didn't think it something to be grasped or held on to.
That He is equal and equivalent to God, our Father,
that he would just allow us to be down here,
flailing and dying. I'm grateful that, in Jesus's divinity, he
was willing to condescend to become human.
Speaker 1: So he could see. 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,