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, November twenty,
twenty twenty four. Hello, my name Iselle 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. Our caption for
today is Old Testament Prophecies about Jesus Part two. Old
Testament Prophecies about Jesus Part two. We'll get into that
in just a moment, but first I'd like to say
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and Heaven. Thank you for this new morning and for
getting us into the middle of our work week and
getting us soon over the hump. Finally, thank you, Father
for giving us so much evidence in the scriptures of
your love and your goodness. Thank you for being reliable
and constant, and please transform our lives today in Jesus' name,
I pray, Amen and Amen again. I'm grateful that God
is available, He's willing, able and available to transform our
minds and transform our lives. And we look into the
Old Testament scriptures not just for proof texts, not just
to be able to give some kind of historic evidence
of filling the blank positive thing here. It is so
that God can do something new in our lives. That
he can make us holy, that he can teach us
how to serve him with all of our hearts, how
we can be of service to other people. And so
from the lesson writer it reads, from the Lesson it reads.
Estimates vary, but some scholars argue that Jesus of Nazareth
fulfilled hundreds of Old Testament prophecies. Whatever the number, The
odds against one man fulfilling even a few of them,
much less all are staggering because all of these prophecies
pointed to sometimes a certain time, certain locations, certain aspects
of his ministry, et cetera, et cetera. And so this
is statistically unlikely, really, and truly, I want to say impossible,
except that it is exactly who we know that it is,
Jesus Christ. But let me continue. Imagine filling an area
the size of Texas in the United States of America
or the entire land area of Jamaica Land we love, huh,
with coins two feet high and painting one coin pink,
and then mixing them all up. Then give a blindfolded
person one chance to pick the pink coin. What are
the odds that with one pick he or she get
the pink one? Yeah, So that is the odds, that is,
the statistical odds of these prophecies pointing to one man
and it being other than Jesus. Like it is Jesus.
There is no way in the world that it is
not Jesus, these prophecies that all point to one person.
If it's not Jesus, it's impossible. So it's Jesus. We
are focusing on Jesus Christ because he is the fulfillment
of these prophecies. Okay. And so now we go into
the Bible Book of John and we read along with
the Old Testament. I'll probably read the Old Testament passages
and then just cite the New Testament ones. Okay. And
so from the Book of Psalms, chapter one, eighteen and
verse twenty six, it reads, blessed is he that cometh
in the name of the Lord. We have blessed you
out of the house of the Lord. Of course, this
is a fulfillment of what happened after Lazarus's resurrection in
John chapter twelve and verse thirteen. Also, also we want
to celebrate Jesus's messianic kingship. This is what was happening
in that scene in John chapter twelve. Jesus was being
actually seen as the Messiah and becoming king at the
same time. You see, the prophecy said that David's throne
would not be left abandoned forever after Zedekiah would have
vacated the throne. And then later, later, later, later, we're
looking forward to the king, the king to ascend the throne.
That king is Jesus Christ. That king is Jesus Christ.
And of course out of the mouths of babes and
sucklings come or thou hast perfected praise, the Bible writer says.
And so in that moment we see that Jesus Christ
is indeed the one we have been waiting for, not Selassie,
not some other emperor or king or ruler from somewhere
in the world. I wish I had the time Jesus
Christ and Jesus alone, Okay. And so we read also
from Zachariah, chapter nine and verse nine. Rejoice greatly, O,
daughter of Zion, shout, oh daughter of Jerusalem. Behold thy
king cometh unto thee He is just and having salvation lowly,
and riding upon a donkey, and upon the cult the
fall of a donkey. We see that is continual manifestation
of John chapter twelve or fulfillment of John chapter twelve,
Verses fourteen and fifteen. And so we embrace the humility
of leadership. Jesus could have announced himself. He could have decided,
you know what I'm going to do is have a
retinue of angels. Like in the Bible it talks about
when he goes back to Heaven. It says that the
angels cried or lifted up their voices. Lift up your heads,
o ye gates, and be ye lifted up ye everlasting doors,
and the King of Glory shall come in. He could
have chosen that route. But the Bible is teaching us
that even as Jesus lived on planet Earth, knowing that
he is the king of the universe and the fulfillment
of all of these prophecies that he is going to
save as people from their sins, our sins, we embrace
the humility and the leadership that Jesus showed while he
was living on planet Earth, so that he could prepare
us for eternity. Okay, and now in Psalm chapter forty
one and verse nine, we read yea mine own familiar
friend in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread,
hath lifted up his heel against me in a very
literal way. In a very literal way, we see in
John chapter thirteen and verse eighteen that Judas Judas is
the fulfillment of that aspect of the prophecy where he
was a betrayer, like he was right there dipping his
hand in the sop, as Jesus would have said, at
what we call now the Lord's Last Supper. And we
see that the prophecy actually foretold even down to what
the trust would have been, what it would have been
like at the last supper, which did eat bread with him,
and he betrayed Jesus. So what God helps us to do,
if he is revealing things in our lives against people
like Judas, he prepares us for a response to betrayal.
There are times that people will do all kinds of
all manner of evil against us. Right who will teach
all manner of lies against us falsely? For Jesus' sake?
He said, In that case, rejoice and be exceeding glad,
for great is your reward in heaven. For so persecuted
they the prophets which were before you, especially Jesus Christ.
And then Finally, we read from Zechariah chapter twelve and
verse ten. Zechariah twelve and verse ten. And I will
pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants
of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications, and
shall look upon me whom they have peers. And they
shall mourn for him as one mourneth for his own son,
and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that
is in bitterness for his first born. And in John
chapter nineteen and verse thirty seven, we see that Jesus
Christ gave himself for us. He sacrificed himself for us,
and the Bible says that they looked on him who
they appeared.
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,