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, November
twenty four, twenty twenty four. Hello, my name is Elle
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
lessons study series themes in the Gospel of John and
our caption for today is in Him Was Life? In Him?
Was Life? I'm thankful. I'm thankful, I'm thankful. Before we
get into this truth today, I am going to say
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go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
Father in Heaven, thank you for all of these people
who are here to receive your word and to give
it to others. Thank You for the people all over
the world on two hundred plus radio stations. All of
these devices, on the Internet, on podcasting aggregator sites, and
on television. I'm asking you, now, Lord, to please please
draw us into your presence and help us to live
life with you. In Jesus' name, I pray, Amen and
Amen again. Live life with God. That's my word for today.
Live life with God, Live life for God. Isn't it
a privilege to know where our life comes from?
Speaker 1: You?
Speaker 2: See, when I was in university in Communication one O
five Communication one O five Introduction to Oral Communication with
doctor Joe Spicer, the late doctor Joe Spicer, he asked
us some questions those years ago. One of them is
a why are you here? Who are you? And why
are you here? And see, back then, I was not
connected to God, even though I was in a Christian
university and I had been around Christian people my entire life.
I went to churches for much of my life up
until then. I wasn't going to church at that time
at all. But even though I was around that, I
was in the atmosphere. I really didn't know how to
answer that question. But now that I'm a believer, I
am very clear who I am. I am very clear
about why I am here, and that reason is because
God said that I would be here. He declares this,
and that means that when his word is spoken, then
creation happens. You see, when he said let there be light,
there was light. And so when he says David Harris, el,
David Harris is here, l d he is here, that
means that there is a reason for this. What is
the reason for whatever? God says the people that he
wants me to reach some of you are them? Right?
You're the people? And then why are you here? Because
there are people that you need to reach for God,
there are people that need life, and you are the
one that's going to guide them to the one who
is life. You see where this is going. So I'm
clear now that in Him is life and there is
a purpose for me on planet Earth. Of course I
could go into the specifics, but this is not the
place for it. And God wants to teach us the
impact of this, but let's walk slowly here. The term
for life in these passages appears thirty six times in
the Gospel of John. About twenty five percent of the
uses of the word for life appears in John. Twenty
five percent of those in the New Testament appears in John.
What is the term Zoe. I hope my brother and
friend j Ques Green is listening Zoe. That is there.
That is their daughter's name, Zoe. Zoe is life. Okay.
Throughout the rest of John, this idea of life or
zoe is most often expressed as everlasting life, the promise
of salvation. Thus, the one who gave life at creation,
see we talked about that a lot yesterday, is the
same one who brings salvation or zoe, eternal life to
a lost world. And so if your name is Zoe,
my friends the brand their daughter's name is also Zoe.
If your name is Zoe, you are representing eternal life.
This may be the day like if your name is Zoe,
I want you to type it in the chat. If
you are on the radio, I want you to go
to your Daily Portion dot com, come back to this
date on the list of videos, and I want you
to type my name is Zoe. And that means that
if your name is Zoe, that you embrace eternal life
because that is your name, eternal life through Christ Jesus.
And so I'm thankful. I'm thankful because the Bible teaches
us behold the lamb of God. As John the Baptist
saw him, Jesus coming onto the scene. Behold the lamb
of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.
So zoe is to have our sins taken away. And
so Jesus came. Jesus came for several profound reasons, the
first of which is or one of the primary reasons
is to take away sin. The other in John chapter
three and verse sixteen, For God so loved the world
that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth
in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. That
is to give us eternal life. So to take away
our sins to provide eternal life. And then and then
in John chapter six and verse forty, the Bible reads,
and this is the will of Him that sent me,
that every one which seeth the Son and believeth on
him may have everlasting life. And I will raise him
up at the last day. So, if God forbid, you
should go to sleep and rest. Some real soldiers of
the Cross have been dying lately. And we know now
that Jesus is the resurrection and the life. And if
God forbid, we do have to die before Jesus returns.
We are clear that he ensures believers resurrection and eternity
with him once Jesus returns. You see, so he came
to take away our sins. He came to provide eternal life.
And if God forbid, you should die or I should
die before Jesus comes, he is here to give us
eternity with him after the resurrection. And of course, the
overarching theme is that Jesus came to reveal the Father
to manifest God as a way or a pathway to salvation.
Now this is true, this is true, and it can
significantly change our lives in practical ways. Let's look at
a few of them. Number one freedom from sin. I mean,
by show of hands, who needs to be free from sin.
He realized that because of sin we have diseases on
planet Earth. He realized that because of sin we have
relationship challenges where people are getting divorced or God forbid,
people are abusing each other because something is going wrong.
That's because of sin. The reason why your month is
longer than your money is because of sin. You understand,
Because the same reason why diplomatic relations break down between
and among countries is because of sin. The economy going
bust and things going terribly wrong. It's because of sin.
So we have freedom from sin. That's practical. That's practical,
and then of course we have the privilege of living
abundantly according to John chapter ten and verse ten, as
we receive God into our life through Christ, we can
have life, and have that life more abundantly.
Speaker 1: Peace. Thanks for joining us listening.
Speaker 2: Friends.
Speaker 1: 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,