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, October
twenty three, 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
Lesson study series themes in the Gospel of John. Our
caption for today is Philip and Nathaniel. Philip and Nathaniel.
We'll get into that in just a moment, but first
I'd like to say welcome to you and ask you
to please go over to your Daily Portion dot com
please join our online community. I need you to click
that number seven. Click the number seven, and I need
one thousand of you to subscribe to the metamorphosis that
is a continual growth opportunity in our spiritual development. And
also let us know where you are in the world
at your daily portion dot com. 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 the testimony
of Philip and Nathaniel. Please help us to come and
see and experience you and be transformed by you, transformed
in our minds, transformed in our lives in Jesus name,
I pray, Amen and a man again Philip and Nathaniel. Okay,
So this is an invitation. It's an invitation for every
single one of us to come and see. Come and
see what Come and see what great things the Lord
can do through Christ. Come and see what Jesus has
done in other people's lives to transform them in every way.
Come and see how God can make a hopeless sinner
in a new creation kind of style into a hopeful saint.
Come and see. And that was the experience that Philip
was welcoming Nathaniel into. Okay, and so we read now
in the Bible, Book of John, chapter one, beginning at
verse forty three. The day following, Jesus would go forth
into Galilee and finde Philip and seth unto him. Follow me.
Now Philip was of Bethseda, the city of Andrew and Peter.
Philip findeth Nathaniel and said, unto him, we have found him.
That means that they were looking for him. Can I
say that again we have found him? This is what
Philip is saying. That means they were looking for him. Well,
who were they looking for?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Who did they find? It says of whom Moses in
the Law and the Prophets did right. So these are
men of God. These are people of God who are
reading in the scriptures, in the prophecies, and are expecting
Messiah to come. And when I say to come, I
don't mean just to be born. I am saying that
at a particular time in Earth's history, the prophets Daniel
in particular, identified specifically when and where Jesus would show up.
Especially at this time, we now are able to see
the one of whom Moses and the Law and the
Prophets did right, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph
and Nathaniel said unto him, m did you say like Nazareth?
Can any good thing come out of Nazareth? And so,
rather than starting an argument, rather than becoming an apologist,
rather than becoming a theologian, he said, come and see
you See. Philip was so convinced by the by the
by the man Jesus Christ, no ordinary man. We're talking
about the God Man, the one who is Emmanuel, that
being interpreted God with us. He was so convinced by
the experience of God through Jesus Christ that all he
needed to say was come and see you see in
your life? Is it that when people see you they
see the power of God at work? Is it that
they only need to see the testimony of your life
to be drawn to Christ? Jesus said, if I be
lifted up, if I be elevated in your life, if
I be he lifted up, then I will draw all
people to myself. You see, he said, let your light
so shine before people, so that when they see your
good works, they will glorify our Father, which is a
part of me in heaven. And so when Philip says,
come and see, he meant that it is a foregone
conclusion that as soon as you see and experience Jesus Christ,
the presence of God on earth, then you will see
exactly what I have been saying. If there's anything good
that can come out of Nazareth, well it's not about
coming out of Nazareth. It's not about coming out of Nazareth.
He was He was sent from God, our Father, from heaven.
For God so loved the world that he gave his
only begotten son, so that so whosoever believes in him
would not perish but have everlasting life. God didn't send
his son in the world to condemn the world. So
Jesus wasn't sent from Nazareth. He wasn't sent from Bethlehem Ephratah,
even though in his humanity that was where we see
him coming from. He was sent from God out of
heaven in the fullness of time. In the fullness of time,
God sent forth his son, made of a woman, made
under the law, in order to transform those who are
under the law, so we could be adopted into his family.
See this is what the scripture said, Come and see Nathaniel.
Come and see. The Bible continues here in verse forty seven.
Jesus saw Nathaniel. So Nathaniel's like, Okay, well I'll take
you up on that offer. I'm going to come and see.
Jesus saw Nathaniel coming toward him. You see, as Philip
is inviting Nathaniel into the presence of God. When people
see you, is it that you're an invitation to the
presence of God? Huh when Nathaniel Jesus saw Nathaniel coming
toward him. Jesus saw Nathaniel coming toward him and exclaimed
he didn't just say, he just didn't identify in his mind.
He exclaimed, look, a true Israelite, m this is a
good thing, an exceptional thing in whom there is no deceit.
Jesus said when he saw Nathaniel. Now understand, when Jesus sees,
he actually sees, he knows the heart of people. Remember
many times in the stories that Jesus would encounter humans,
the Bible would say, when he knew their thoughts, he
would say, when he knew their thoughts, he would do,
when he knew their thoughts, he would write on the ground.
The Bible says here that when he saw and knew Nathaniel,
he knew his character. He knew that he had the
circumcision of the heart to love the Lord is God.
He knew that he wasn't just in name one of
God's people, but in his actual spirit, the mindset that
he had, the lifestyle that he had was like Christ. Yes,
a true Israelite, indeed in whom there is no guile
or deceit. Now Nathaniel asked him, well, how do you
know me, Jesus replied, oh, before Philip called you remember
that a moment ago when you were having the discussion
and you were like, well, can any good thing come
out of Nazareth? Remember that? Well, before that happened, when
you were under the fig tree, I saw you, I
saw you. Do you remember do you remember the story
of Abraham, Sarah Hagar? And then of course, now Hagar
is sent out of the household. It's a long story.
She has a child for Abraham, and Sarah and Hagar
are not, you know, doing well in terms of relationship,
and she's sent out of the presence now right, And
now Hagar is there and she's bemoaning the fact that
she's now kicked out of the house like she has
every right to be there with Abraham.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: Well, long story short, Now the messenger of the Lord
comes to Hagar, and the Bible says that he saw her.
God saw her and then blessed Ishmael. God saw her
the plight that she had experienced, and he and he
blessed her son. And now now, the Bible says, Nathaniel
answered and said, Rabbi, you are the son of God.
You are the King of Israel. Yeah. The Bible teaches
us that he Nathaniel, would see even more and be
transformed along with the rest of the people of God. Peace.
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.