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. It's
May eighteen, 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, and our
caption for today is our High Priest, Our High Priest.
We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
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that we continue to build faith and fellowship. Let's go
ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,
We thank you for this day. Help us to live
like Jesus is, our great High Priest. In Jesus name,
I pray, Amen and Amen again. Okay, so yesterday, yesterday,
I was so excited to talk about God's name in
our lives. I didn't talk about what Pastor Boonstra had
been sharing with us right there in the lesson. A
careful reading of the Psalms yields details that make the
Book of revel come alive, especially in Revelation chapter fourteen,
which describes the final work of God's remnant people on
planet Earth. I didn't even mention all of these things.
And I have a long list, a long list in
my notes where we can connect the Revelation and the Psalms,
the Revelation and the Psalms. So please just go into
our community and ask me for my notes on this.
But I'll just give you a few points. I won't
read the particular Bible texts because I don't have the time.
But number one, God rules over everyone. We see that
in the Psalms chapter forty seven and Revelation fourteen. Also
we see God's judgment is fair in Psalms chapter ninety six,
verse thirteen and Revelation fourteen, verse seven. Also point number three,
we see that in Psalm chapter twenty nine and verse
two that God worshiping God actually matters. We see that
also in Revelation fourteen, verse seven.
Speaker 1: Two.
Speaker 2: More, God protects his people Psalm ninety one, Verses four
and five and Revelation chapter seven and verse three. And
then finally, God's blessings are for the world whoever will
receive him Psalm chapter sixty seven, Verses one and two,
and then of course Revelation fourteen and verse six. Again,
go into our community and ask for my notes on this,
and that'll be a good foundation for the rest of
our week. And so now we see Jesus Christ as
the great high priest that is standing so that you
and I can be clean. I'm talking about fully clean,
seen as if we had never sinned. Do you see?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 2: The lesson writer says Pastor boonstra see to it that
you make them. He's actually referencing the Bible. See to
it that you make them according to the pattern as
shown to you on the mountain in Exodus, chapter twenty
five and verse forty. This is God's guidance, the blueprint
that he's giving Moses, to have them make me a
sanctuary that I may dwell among them. Do it according
to the blueprint that I have given you. Do it
according to the blueprint that I have given you. Sometimes
people are stressed out in life because you have no blueprint.
You're not looking at the blueprint that God has given
us for our lives. In fact, there is a song
I used to love to sing in my own worship
with God. Lord, prepare me to be a sanctuary, pure
and holy, tried and true, and with thanksgiving, I'll be
a living sanctuary Lord for you. This is the blessing
that as he showed Moses the blueprint for the sanctuary
that he would erect on planet Earth, which is really
a symbol of salvation, a plan of salvation that God
was giving us. Ultimately beyond that, transcending even that teaching
tool of how salvation works, pointing to Jesus absolutely, but
I want you to get it, Jesus himself is the sanctuary.
The Old Testament says that God is a little sanctuary.
Jesus said, as he was about to be crucified, if
you will destroy this temple in three days, I will
build it up. And he is the pattern. Jesus is
the pattern. The Bible says that there is no temple
there in Revelation chapter twenty one. Jesus Christ is the
temple thereof. And so He's given us, through the Holy
Ghost the same blueprint. He said, know ye not? What
know ye not? That you are the temple of the
Holy Ghost? Huh who dwells in you? You have been
brought bought with a price. Therefore, glorify God in everything
that you do, everything that you are, because He's purchased you.
You see. And even though there is a heavenly sanctuary,
even though there was this part of me blueprint that
God had given Moses, even though he erected the sanctuary
on planet Earth, it really all points to Jesus. And
we are to be the place where God dwells. I
think somebody just got it. We are to be the
place where God dwells. You're going to have to slow
it down, maybe listen to this half speed and go again,
because somebody's just getting it. So we read now, We
read now from the Bible Book of Hebrews, about our
great High Priest, our great high Priest. We see that
teaching tool, that symbolism in the sanctuary Jesus Christ. The
Bible reads here in Hebrews chapter nine, beginning at verse eleven.
But Christ being become and high priest of good things
to come by a greater and more perfect tabernacle not
made with hands. So the Bible writer is leading us
to the ultimate reality of the sanctuary, the ultimate reality. Yes,
neither by the blood of goats verse twelve and calves,
but by his own blood he entered in once into
the Holy Place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. For
if the blood of bulls and of goats sanctifieth and
purifieth the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ,
who through the eternal Spirit, offered himself without spot to God,
purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
And for this cause He is the mediator of the
Covenant or the Testament, that they which are called might
receive the promise of eternal inheritance. Okay, what does this
all mean? What does this all mean? What does this
teach us about what Christ is doing for us? In short,
it shows that Jesus Christ is serving as our perfect
high priest. That means that he's gone through what humans
go through, so that when he is in heaven, he
is in heaven helping people and be in cleansing human
beings and seeing all that you have gone through. He
can remember the time that he was hungry. He can
remember when the devil tempted him. He can remember when
he had to go and pray a great while before
day because he couldn't get through his day except he
connect with his father. So when he is doing his
high priestly ministry right now in the Heavenly Sanctuary, he's
doing it with an empathetic with an empathetic tone. He
knows what it's like to live on planet Earth, so
he can represent you well. Of course, Christ also works
in the Heavenly Sanctuary, not a human man, to bring
about real salvation and not symbolic rituals. Also, he offered
his own blood instead of animal sacrifices. Jesus offered his
own life once securing eternal redemption, no repeats needed, so
when we are saved by grace. It's not because Jesus
died on a Tuesday and then somebody else gets saved
next week. It's not because he died again. Somebody gets
saved in a year. Not because he died again. He
did all that he needed to do in order to
give his life for us so that we could be saved,
and he mediates the New Covenant. Why because Jesus lived
on planet Earth a holy life.
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,