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 Thursday, August 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 through the Book of Mark, and our caption
for today is a different kind of Messiah, a different
kind of Messiah. We'll get into that in just a moment,
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This is one of the ways that we continue to
build faith and fellowship. Let's go ahead and pray, and
then we will get underway. Father and Heaven, thank you
for giving us this new morning and getting us just
one more step closer to the coming and one more
step closer to this Sabbath. I pray now that you
will give us a clear view of who you are
and who Jesus is as Messiah. Please help us to
live according to your holy principles. In Jesus' name, I pray,
Amen and Amen again. A different kind of Messiah now,
I just want to say, based on what we will
read in just a moment, that Jesus is the kind
of Messiah that has compassion. He's compassionate, He's the kind
of Messiah that is is caring. He's the one that
provides for us. He's the one that gives us guidance.
He said that he would guide us on the paths
of righteousness. And I'm thankful because not all messiahs and
their quotes have these qualities. MAT just say for a
moment for the people who are just saying, but why
are you talking about there are no other messiahs. I'm like, well,
that's not what Jesus said. He said in Matthew twenty four.
It's recorded in Matthew twenty four that he said that
there will be false Christs and false prophets, so there
will be false messiahs, and those messiahs are not Jesus.
He's compassionate, he's holy, he is caring, He provides for us,
he gives us guidance. But in the context of his day,
when Jesus lived on planet Earth, he was not the
one the kind of messiah for revolt, He was not
the kind of messiah for incursions. He was not the
kind of messiah that would try to overthrow any government. No,
he was compassionate and caring and holy, and he was
our provider and he gave holy guidance. But the people
were so beside themselves when they experienced Messiah, because because
they could not imagine that someone could be like this,
they were beside themselves with amazement. And so the Bible
reads in Mark chapter six, beginning at verse thirty four,
and Jesus when he came out, saw much people and
was moved with compassion toward them because they were as sheep,
not having a shepherd, and he began to teach them
many things. And so Jesus didn't try to capitalize on
these people's vulnerability. He did not try to capitalize on
their aimlessness. What happens with the false messiahs, these false christs,
these individuals who are opportunistic. They prey upon people who
seem not to have a right focus or an aim,
and then they make money of them, They make sport
of them. They do all kinds of unmentionable evils toward them,
and use their power and influence to do evil in
the world. But Jesus, he had compassion on them because
he could see their aimlessness verse thirty five. And when
the day was now far spent, his disciples came to
him and said, this is a desert place, and now
the time has far past. Send them away, that they
may go into the country round about, go into the
villages and buy themselves bread, for they have nothing to eat.
And that sounds actually sounds pretty good. Like the disciples
had compassion, like they cared for the people. But Jesus
did something special here, He said something special. Verse thirty seven.
He answered and said, unto them, give ye them to eat.
You don't have to send them away. He sang to
his disciples, you don't have to send them away. All
that you need you currently have. Whatever you need, you
currently have. What they don't have, anything to eat. What
they need you have, you give them to eat. And
they say, unto him, shall we go and buy two
hundred penny worth of bread and give them all to eat?
And he said, unto them, how many loaves have ye?
Go and see? And when they knew, they say, five
and two fishes. And he commanded them to make them
all sit down in companies upon the green grass. You see,
Jesus had an organized way of providing for his children.
Let's just continue to read verse forty. And they sat
down in ranks, by hundreds and by fifties. And when
he had taken the five loaves and the two fish,
he looked up to heaven and blessed and break the
loaves and gave them to his disciples to set before them,
and the two fishes divided. He among them all, how
many people did he give these five loaves and fish?
And I want you to be careful here. Let's keep going.
Let's keep going. And they all did eat and were filled,
and they took up twelve baskets full of fragments and
of fish. And they that did eat of the loaves
were about five thousand and most of you forget it
says men. It doesn't say five thousand people. Unfortunately, the
women were not counted. Unfortunately, the children were not counted.
So if there were five thousand men and then you
add women, I don't know if all of the men
were connected to women, but just let's just say a
portion of them were. Three thousand of them also had women,
so that would be three thousand plus five thousand, that
would be eight thousand. And let's just say that they
had children. Let's say they had four children, so that's
eight thousand times four. Now you see where we're going
with this. So it was already miraculous when it was
just five thousand men, But now we're talking about tens
of thousands of people, real live humans who were able
to eat because Jesus performed a miracle. Why because he's compassionate,
he's caring, he makes provision, he gives guidance. He's not
going to overthrow any human governments. Not this way, okay,
And the Bible continues and straightway. He constrained his disciples
to get in the ship and to go on the
other side. Before onto bethsaida while he sent them away.
He sent away the people, And when he had sent
them away, he departed into a mountain to pray. Can
you imagine Jesus, the all powerful One blessed be his name,
is now condescending and living in human form, and he's
showing us that even he, as he lived on planet Earth,
needed to rely on his father. He couldn't do all
of this work in his own strength as a human.
He needed to be filled with the power of God,
so that when he went out and served, he would
be serving from a fullness and overflow from what he
experienced and received from his father. There is a lesson
here for us. We can only serve as we are
filled by the power of God. The Bible continues. The
Bible continues. And when even was come, the ship was
in the midst of the sea, and he alone on
the land, and he said, unto them toiling and rowing.
He saw them toiling and rowing, and the wind was
contrary unto them. And about the fourth watch of the
night he cometh unto them, walking upon the sea, and
would have passed by them. But when he saw them.
When they saw him walking on the sea, they supposed
that it had been the spirit and cried out, or
all saw him and were troubled. And immediately he talked
with them and said, be of good cheer. It is
I be not afraid. And he went up into them
unto the ship, and the wind ceased. And they were sore,
amazed in themselves beyond measure, and wondered, for they considered
not the miracle of loaves, or their heart was hardened.
Let me just say right here, ha, when they received
Jesus into the ship they arrived at the other side.
Why because he's a different kind of Messiah, compassionate, caring,
giving guidance and provision.
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,