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 Wednesday, December eleven,
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 the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit.
We'll get into that in just a moment, but before
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this ministry to continue as well. Let's go ahead and pray,
and then we will get underway. Father in Heaven, thank
you for giving us this day and giving us our
daily bread, and thank you for the power of the
Holy Spirit. Thank you for not leaving us in the
dark about His movements in the world, in the universe,
in our lives. I pray God that we will revere you.
We will revere the power of God through your Spirit.
In Jesus' name, I pray Amen, Amen again the Holy Spirit.
I'm not gonna waste my time or yours to tell
you all of the wicked things that people are saying
about the Holy Spirit. Let's just get to the truth.
We're gonna shoot straight down the line directly to the truth.
And let me say this without apology or qualification. The
Holy Spirit is a divine person. I'll give you a
quote in just a second, but let's first go into
our minds. At the baptism of Jesus Christ. Okay, the
Bible says that while Jesus was being baptized in the
Jordan River by John Right. So physically, geographically, Jesus is
on planet Earth. In the Jordan River. He is wet
up to a certain point on his body, and John
is about to immerse him or submerge him beneath the
surface of the water. And when the Bible gives us
the understand of that event, the Bible says that there
is a voice from heaven. That is God, our Father's voice. Geographically,
if you want to say, God, our Father is in heaven.
But with his booming voice, I imagine, yes, haven't heard
his voice that way yet. But with his voice he says,
this is my beloved son, in whom I am well pleased.
So God our Father is geographically he's in heaven. Jesus
Christ in the Jordan River. Now he's coming up out
of the water. And the Bible says that in bodily form,
the Holy Spirit lights on him and rests on him
like as of a dove. And so we have the
Father in heaven, we have Jesus Christ geographically physically in
the Jordan River, and we have the Holy Spirit who's
manifesting himself. I said himself in bodily form like as
a dove. And so we have have the three beings
that comprise God. Okay, God, the Father, God, the Son God,
the Holy Spirit. And then, of course the Bible says
that unfortunately humans can grieve the Holy Ghost. Don't do that.
In the time when Anonias and Saphirah had lied about
how they had used or not used the money that
they had gotten from the sale of their property, at
a time when God's people had all things common, the
Bible says, the apostle said, you were lying to the
Holy Ghost. Okay. And so the Holy Spirit is a
divine person. Let me read from the book Evangelism, pages
six sixteen and six seventeen, and it makes it very
clear here the Holy Spirit has a personality. Else he
could not bear witness to our spirits and with our
spirits that we are the children of God. Remember the
Bible writer said that the Spirit bears witness with our
spirit that we are as children God's children. He must
also be a divine person, else he could not search
out the secrets which lie hidden in the mind of God.
And we see an allusion to this, and I think
it's Romans chapter eight when it says that we know
we don't know what to pray for as we ought
to pray. Ah. But the Holy Spirit who moans and
groanings that cannot be uttered. Also, of course he is
in league with God our Father, knowing the mind the
mindset of God our Father. Okay. And so the Holy Spirit,
let me say it just one more time, here is
a divine person. And I will leave all the rest
of that rubbish out of our discussion today, okay. And
so now we go into the Bible Book of John
chapter one, and we read, beginning at verse ten, he
was in the world, and the world was made by him,
and the world knew him. Not, this is Jesus Christ.
He came unto his own and his own received him.
Speaker 1: Not.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine you created the world? Ah, You created
all things animate and inanimate. You are the one who
created even the human beings. And then you set a
set of human beings aside for a holy use. You
called them out, and you even some of them you
made leaders of the people of God, so that they
could guide each of the people of God to a
closer connection with Him. And then the Bible says that
his own people did not receive him. But the Bible
does say that there were some who did choose to
receive him Verse twelve. But as many as received him
to them gave he power. Oh, I love that word power.
It's like dynamite in our soul. Like we are not
bound by our badges, habits, were not bound by the
relationships that we should never have been in. In the
first place, God can deliver us. We are not bound
by the sins that we have committed where we have
broken the law of God, not the iniquities, not the transgressions,
not the sins. We are not bound the power of God,
the dynamite power of God through the Holy Ghost is present.
What so that we can become the children of God,
the sons of God, the children of God. Even to
them that believe. The only way that we can be alive,
we can be leave in this case is through the
power of the Holy Ghost, even to them that believe
on His name, which we're born not of blood. Remember,
the Bible says a little later that we must be
born again ah, not of blood, nor of the will
of flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
In the same way that when Jesus took on human flesh.
He adopted human flesh for thirty three and one half years.
Jesus Christ lived in human flesh. Yes, he was still
God the Sun. Yes he was still divine, one hundred
percent divine, But he took on human flesh during those years.
And the Bible says it was through the Holy Ghost
who overshadowed Mary. He was born into humanity because of
the Holy Spirit overshadowing Mary in the same way that
Mary received that baby supernaturally. By the overshadowing of the
Holy Ghost, we are transformed. We are made anew. We
become the children of God through the power of the
Holy Ghost overshadowing our lives. Can I say that again
just quicker? The Lord overshadows our lives through the power
of the Holy Ghost, and then we are transformed. We
are born anew. That is if we will cooperate with him.
So it is the will of God that we will
receive God into our lives through Jesus Christ by the
power of the Holy Ghost. And I'm grateful. I'm grateful
because he could have left us here to die. And
the Bible does teach us that we must be born
by the water and by the Holy Ghost, and that
is the only way that we can enter into the
Kingdom of God. In John chapter three, verses five through eight,
I'm thankful that the Holy Spirit is not an it.
The Holy Spirit is a person, and he is present
with you even now.
Speaker 1: 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.