1 00:00:01,199 --> 00:00:04,160 Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too much, 2 00:00:04,599 --> 00:00:07,879 because yesterday's food is not enough to supply energy for 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:12,240 today's needs. Why then, do some of us expect yesterday's 4 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:15,400 portion of heavenly manna the Word of God to keep 5 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:19,199 us through today's challenges. On this program, we are going 6 00:00:19,239 --> 00:00:23,280 to change all of that. Let's experience God's words today 7 00:00:23,559 --> 00:00:27,399 and receive the power we need to live healthy, vibrant lives. 8 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:31,879 Welcome to Your Daily Portion with your host, author speaker 9 00:00:32,039 --> 00:00:33,079 Elle David Harris. 10 00:00:33,119 --> 00:00:37,119 Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning. It is Wednesday, December eleven, 11 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:40,840 twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is El David Harris. 12 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:43,439 I am your host, and this is your Daily Portion 13 00:00:43,759 --> 00:00:46,320 where we give you God's Word every single day, and 14 00:00:46,399 --> 00:00:50,119 today is no exception. We are continuing in our lesson 15 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:53,399 study series themes in the Gospel of John and our 16 00:00:53,439 --> 00:00:57,560 caption for today is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit. 17 00:00:58,119 --> 00:01:00,759 We'll get into that in just a moment, but before 18 00:01:00,799 --> 00:01:02,640 we do, I'd like to say welcome to you and 19 00:01:02,679 --> 00:01:04,879 ask you to please go over to your Daily Portion 20 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:08,799 dot com. Please join our online community, pick up the 21 00:01:08,840 --> 00:01:12,400 Your Daily Portion book, and let us know where you 22 00:01:12,560 --> 00:01:15,959 are in the world. At your Daily portion dot com. 23 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:18,879 I want you to please a thousand of you at 24 00:01:18,959 --> 00:01:22,879 least click that number seven and subscribe there to continue 25 00:01:22,920 --> 00:01:27,480 to grow in your spiritual development, and that helps for 26 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:31,239 this ministry to continue as well. Let's go ahead and pray, 27 00:01:31,439 --> 00:01:34,680 and then we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank 28 00:01:34,719 --> 00:01:37,359 you for giving us this day and giving us our 29 00:01:37,519 --> 00:01:40,439 daily bread, and thank you for the power of the 30 00:01:40,439 --> 00:01:43,280 Holy Spirit. Thank you for not leaving us in the 31 00:01:43,400 --> 00:01:48,239 dark about His movements in the world, in the universe, 32 00:01:48,319 --> 00:01:52,159 in our lives. I pray God that we will revere you. 33 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:56,079 We will revere the power of God through your Spirit. 34 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:02,920 In Jesus' name, I pray Amen, Amen again the Holy Spirit. 35 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:07,120 I'm not gonna waste my time or yours to tell 36 00:02:07,159 --> 00:02:09,719 you all of the wicked things that people are saying 37 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:12,719 about the Holy Spirit. Let's just get to the truth. 38 00:02:12,759 --> 00:02:16,280 We're gonna shoot straight down the line directly to the truth. 39 00:02:16,520 --> 00:02:20,599 And let me say this without apology or qualification. The 40 00:02:20,599 --> 00:02:25,680 Holy Spirit is a divine person. I'll give you a 41 00:02:25,759 --> 00:02:28,479 quote in just a second, but let's first go into 42 00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:32,599 our minds. At the baptism of Jesus Christ. Okay, the 43 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:37,319 Bible says that while Jesus was being baptized in the 44 00:02:37,439 --> 00:02:42,639 Jordan River by John Right. So physically, geographically, Jesus is 45 00:02:42,759 --> 00:02:46,280 on planet Earth. In the Jordan River. He is wet 46 00:02:46,360 --> 00:02:49,960 up to a certain point on his body, and John 47 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:55,039 is about to immerse him or submerge him beneath the 48 00:02:55,120 --> 00:02:58,960 surface of the water. And when the Bible gives us 49 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:03,879 the understand of that event, the Bible says that there 50 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:09,319 is a voice from heaven. That is God, our Father's voice. Geographically, 51 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:13,599 if you want to say, God, our Father is in heaven. 52 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:20,280 But with his booming voice, I imagine, yes, haven't heard 53 00:03:20,280 --> 00:03:23,879 his voice that way yet. But with his voice he says, 54 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:28,000 this is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased. 55 00:03:28,039 --> 00:03:30,960 So God our Father is geographically he's in heaven. Jesus 56 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:33,680 Christ in the Jordan River. Now he's coming up out 57 00:03:33,759 --> 00:03:37,680 of the water. And the Bible says that in bodily form, 58 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:41,520 the Holy Spirit lights on him and rests on him 59 00:03:42,199 --> 00:03:44,280 like as of a dove. And so we have the 60 00:03:44,360 --> 00:03:48,719 Father in heaven, we have Jesus Christ geographically physically in 61 00:03:48,759 --> 00:03:52,759 the Jordan River, and we have the Holy Spirit who's 62 00:03:52,919 --> 00:03:58,319 manifesting himself. I said himself in bodily form like as 63 00:03:58,319 --> 00:04:02,479 a dove. And so we have have the three beings 64 00:04:02,919 --> 00:04:09,479 that comprise God. Okay, God, the Father, God, the Son God, 65 00:04:09,479 --> 00:04:12,319 the Holy Spirit. And then, of course the Bible says 66 00:04:12,360 --> 00:04:17,079 that unfortunately humans can grieve the Holy Ghost. Don't do that. 67 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:21,680 In the time when Anonias and Saphirah had lied about 68 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:25,480 how they had used or not used the money that 69 00:04:25,519 --> 00:04:27,759 they had gotten from the sale of their property, at 70 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:31,120 a time when God's people had all things common, the 71 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:34,360 Bible says, the apostle said, you were lying to the 72 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:37,240 Holy Ghost. Okay. And so the Holy Spirit is a 73 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:44,279 divine person. Let me read from the book Evangelism, pages 74 00:04:44,319 --> 00:04:47,879 six sixteen and six seventeen, and it makes it very 75 00:04:47,920 --> 00:04:52,920 clear here the Holy Spirit has a personality. Else he 76 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:58,720 could not bear witness to our spirits and with our 77 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:02,040 spirits that we are the children of God. Remember the 78 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:05,040 Bible writer said that the Spirit bears witness with our 79 00:05:05,079 --> 00:05:09,839 spirit that we are as children God's children. He must 80 00:05:09,879 --> 00:05:15,399 also be a divine person, else he could not search 81 00:05:15,439 --> 00:05:19,680 out the secrets which lie hidden in the mind of God. 82 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:22,199 And we see an allusion to this, and I think 83 00:05:22,199 --> 00:05:25,240 it's Romans chapter eight when it says that we know 84 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:28,120 we don't know what to pray for as we ought 85 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:31,560 to pray. Ah. But the Holy Spirit who moans and 86 00:05:31,879 --> 00:05:35,720 groanings that cannot be uttered. Also, of course he is 87 00:05:35,759 --> 00:05:39,519 in league with God our Father, knowing the mind the 88 00:05:39,639 --> 00:05:44,120 mindset of God our Father. Okay. And so the Holy Spirit, 89 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:46,680 let me say it just one more time, here is 90 00:05:46,759 --> 00:05:50,519 a divine person. And I will leave all the rest 91 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:53,560 of that rubbish out of our discussion today, okay. And 92 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:55,519 so now we go into the Bible Book of John 93 00:05:55,639 --> 00:05:59,519 chapter one, and we read, beginning at verse ten, he 94 00:05:59,720 --> 00:06:02,839 was in the world, and the world was made by him, 95 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:05,920 and the world knew him. Not, this is Jesus Christ. 96 00:06:06,480 --> 00:06:09,959 He came unto his own and his own received him. 97 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:10,079 Speaker 1: Not. 98 00:06:10,199 --> 00:06:13,759 Speaker 2: Can you imagine you created the world? Ah, You created 99 00:06:13,800 --> 00:06:17,279 all things animate and inanimate. You are the one who 100 00:06:17,399 --> 00:06:20,439 created even the human beings. And then you set a 101 00:06:20,959 --> 00:06:24,519 set of human beings aside for a holy use. You 102 00:06:24,639 --> 00:06:28,160 called them out, and you even some of them you 103 00:06:28,279 --> 00:06:31,480 made leaders of the people of God, so that they 104 00:06:31,519 --> 00:06:35,199 could guide each of the people of God to a 105 00:06:35,240 --> 00:06:38,600 closer connection with Him. And then the Bible says that 106 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:43,319 his own people did not receive him. But the Bible 107 00:06:43,360 --> 00:06:46,040 does say that there were some who did choose to 108 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:50,319 receive him Verse twelve. But as many as received him 109 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:54,040 to them gave he power. Oh, I love that word power. 110 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:57,879 It's like dynamite in our soul. Like we are not 111 00:06:58,120 --> 00:07:02,120 bound by our badges, habits, were not bound by the 112 00:07:02,160 --> 00:07:04,800 relationships that we should never have been in. In the 113 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:07,759 first place, God can deliver us. We are not bound 114 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:09,839 by the sins that we have committed where we have 115 00:07:09,959 --> 00:07:14,360 broken the law of God, not the iniquities, not the transgressions, 116 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:17,560 not the sins. We are not bound the power of God, 117 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:22,759 the dynamite power of God through the Holy Ghost is present. 118 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:25,720 What so that we can become the children of God, 119 00:07:25,759 --> 00:07:28,600 the sons of God, the children of God. Even to 120 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:33,040 them that believe. The only way that we can be alive, 121 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:37,639 we can be leave in this case is through the 122 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:41,000 power of the Holy Ghost, even to them that believe 123 00:07:41,240 --> 00:07:45,839 on His name, which we're born not of blood. Remember, 124 00:07:45,839 --> 00:07:49,439 the Bible says a little later that we must be 125 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:53,160 born again ah, not of blood, nor of the will 126 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:57,160 of flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 127 00:07:57,319 --> 00:08:01,920 In the same way that when Jesus took on human flesh. 128 00:08:01,959 --> 00:08:07,040 He adopted human flesh for thirty three and one half years. 129 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:11,120 Jesus Christ lived in human flesh. Yes, he was still 130 00:08:11,199 --> 00:08:14,920 God the Sun. Yes he was still divine, one hundred 131 00:08:14,920 --> 00:08:18,879 percent divine, But he took on human flesh during those years. 132 00:08:19,319 --> 00:08:22,720 And the Bible says it was through the Holy Ghost 133 00:08:22,800 --> 00:08:30,560 who overshadowed Mary. He was born into humanity because of 134 00:08:30,600 --> 00:08:36,000 the Holy Spirit overshadowing Mary in the same way that 135 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:41,919 Mary received that baby supernaturally. By the overshadowing of the 136 00:08:41,919 --> 00:08:47,080 Holy Ghost, we are transformed. We are made anew. We 137 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:51,399 become the children of God through the power of the 138 00:08:51,440 --> 00:08:55,600 Holy Ghost overshadowing our lives. Can I say that again 139 00:08:55,919 --> 00:09:00,559 just quicker? The Lord overshadows our lives through the power 140 00:09:00,559 --> 00:09:02,799 of the Holy Ghost, and then we are transformed. We 141 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:07,039 are born anew. That is if we will cooperate with him. 142 00:09:07,279 --> 00:09:10,360 So it is the will of God that we will 143 00:09:10,519 --> 00:09:14,840 receive God into our lives through Jesus Christ by the 144 00:09:14,919 --> 00:09:19,320 power of the Holy Ghost. And I'm grateful. I'm grateful 145 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:22,600 because he could have left us here to die. And 146 00:09:22,679 --> 00:09:26,600 the Bible does teach us that we must be born 147 00:09:26,759 --> 00:09:29,519 by the water and by the Holy Ghost, and that 148 00:09:29,639 --> 00:09:33,159 is the only way that we can enter into the 149 00:09:33,279 --> 00:09:36,720 Kingdom of God. In John chapter three, verses five through eight, 150 00:09:36,799 --> 00:09:40,320 I'm thankful that the Holy Spirit is not an it. 151 00:09:41,039 --> 00:09:43,960 The Holy Spirit is a person, and he is present 152 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:45,120 with you even now. 153 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:48,159 Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us listening to friends. Always remember we 154 00:09:48,159 --> 00:09:51,320 cannot live by bread alone, but by every word that 155 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:54,320 comes from the mouth of God. This has been your 156 00:09:54,399 --> 00:10:00,279 daily portion with el David Harris, make it a great day. Yeah.