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, October six,
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 Feeding of the five thousand.
I'm going to deal with that in just a moment,
but before we do, I'd like to say welcome to
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Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway.
Father and Heaven, thank you for giving us this day
and giving us the opportunity to hear from you. Please
help us to see you, and please, Father, help us
to know that you see us. In Jesus' name, I pray,
Amen and amen again. Let me just address really quickly
that big, great, big, pink, hairy elephant in the room
right now. It says feeding of the five thousand. May
I just say that God sees all of you, He
sees all of us, He knows you, He has called
you from before there was a beginning. So even though
this is reporting as if there were only five thousand people,
it's really only men. It's only men. So there were
women there, there were children there. So God sees and
feeds all of the men, the women and the children.
Today God is seeing and feeding all of the men,
the women and the children, or the children, the women
and the men as the case may be, And so
I want you to know that God sees you ladies,
God sees you children, God sees you all right, and
He is making provision for you. Okay, let me go
ahead and read from the Great Controversy before I go
off on a tangent. It would have been a good one,
but let me stay focused.
Speaker 1: Here.
Speaker 2: From the Great Controversy, page five hundred and forty, we read,
he bore the guilt of transgression. Let me just say,
he bore the guilt of transgression for all of the
human family, children, women, men. He bore the guilt of
transgression and the hiding of his father's face until his
heart was broken and his life crushed out. Lord help us.
All this sacrifice was made that sinners might be redeemed.
Are you a sinner, brothers and sisters like type in
the chat, I am a sinner saved by grace. I
didn't want to just leave you there. I'm a sinner
saved by grace. I know that's a lot of words,
but I'm a sinner. I want you to confess with
your mouth that I'm a sinner saved by grace, and
really and truly if that's the case, and I hope
it is the case. I hope that you have decided
today or some time prior to today, that you would
accept the offer of salvation that comes freely through Jesus Christ.
But that means simply that you're a saint. So if
you wanted to shorten the sentence, you could say, I'm
a saint not because of your own works, not because
you have done everything just right, but because you are
saved by the grace of God, by grace through faith.
And this is the gift of God, not of works,
lest anyone should boast. And so I'm thankful that God
has called you, he has called me saints. We are
children of the light and not darkness, if we are
choosing to serve God every day. Let me begin now
by reading from John chapter six. John chapter six, and
I would read beginning at verse one, and the Bible
reads after these things. Jesus went over the Sea of Galilee,
which is also the Sea of Tiberius, and a great
multitude followed him. What a great multitude of whom of men, women,
and children. I need you to keep that in your mind,
of men, women, and children, because they saw his miracles
which he did on them that were diseased, and Jesus
went up into a mountain because he wanted to be
able to reach the people. He wanted the people to
be able to hear and see him. He went up
into the mountain, and there he sat with his disciples,
and the passover, a feast of the people of God,
was nigh. When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, he
saw a great company come unto him, and he said,
unto Philip, where shall we buy bread that these may eat?
I want you to understand this is a setup. It's
a setup. Jesus is positioning his closest cohorts. He's positioning
them to see that God wants to deliver people he wants.
He wants his closest cohorts, those deciples poles. He wants
them to see that we have a part to play
in the provision that God makes for people that he
wants to save. And so he says, he says, to
prove him, for he himself knew what he would do.
Verse seven. Philip answered him, two hundred pennyworth of bread
is not sufficient for them, that every one of them
may take a little One of his disciples, Andrew Simon
Peter's brother seth unto him. There is a lad here.
See are you thankful that God has manifest the truth
here that there was a young a young child there,
a young child there. So when you see that God
is able to provide for children, he's able to provide
for women, he is able to provide for men, leaving
nobody out. How come we don't focus on the fact
that everybody was present. Huh, here we go, there was
a young lad there. Okay, well what else? What else?
What else? Which hath five barley loaves and two small fishes?
But what are they among so many? I am so glad,
you asked, and Jesus said, make the men sit down.
Now there was much grass in the place, And so
the men sat down, in number of about five thousand,
and Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks,
he distributed to the disciples. What did he distribute, He
distributed what he gave thanks for. He distributed what he
gave thanks for. Well, what did he give thanks for?
He gave thanks for the power of God to do
in a way that no human in human ingenuity could do. Miraculously,
God is providing in that place in the same way
that he provided miraculously in the wilderness. Can I just
say that God is doing what he has always done.
He is making provision that is not limited by human
in jauity. In your life and your lifestyle, your relationships,
your businesses, your work situations, your health, huh, and everything
that has to do with you. God is providing miraculously
if you're willing to receive it. And so he said
to distribute to the disciples, and the disciples to them
that were set down, and likewise of the fishes, as
much as they would, and they were all filled. How
could five thousand men plus the children? How could five
thousand men plus the children and the women? How could
God provide for so many people from just five loaves
and two fish? How could God provide when your month
is longer than your money? How is it that He
gives you what you need? How is it that God
could provide peace when you have lost a loved one.
How is it that God can provide the kind of
joy that you need even when there are times that
you suffer? How is it that God can provide salvation
to such a broken sinner like me? Because Jesus is
no ordinary man. Jesus was never an ordinary man. Jesus
was the theanthropic one. That's a big word. That simply
means he was one hundred percent God, one hundred percent man.
And in that divine unity Jesus comes to save us
from our sins and to give us everything that we need.
And let me just say, after they had done all
of that, all of that, the people recognized, Wait a minute,
this is no ordinary man in our midst This man
is unusual. Wow, God is no ordinary man. Peace.
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,